I've just made a door out of 100x 15mm t&g and 30x30mm rebated timber to frame it. Having glued it all together I decided to run the router round the inside edge of the rebate with one of those "self guiding" bits. However I couldn't get the right depth because there was an allen screw on the bottom of the router bit snagging on the t&g. The router bit came with an allen key so I used it remove the allen screw and it worked perfectly. So, my question is; what is the point of the allen screw?
to hold the bearing onto the router bit. i think your experience was just pure fluke luck OR the bearing is rusted onto the cutter
I guess I must be just lucky. It was a brand new bit so it certainly wasn't rusted. However what is the point of supplying an allen key to remove the allen screw if it's not meant to be removed?
on a lot of cutters they are ment to be swapped to give different shapes or width of cut for example one of these http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp;jsessionid=QANAZRRO3XYFOCSTHZOSFFI?id=60536&ts=95742 with different bearings allows different depth of cut same with buiscut cutters for roughters ot on your roundover bits with a small bearing gives you a querk[step]or the next size bearing up just an arc[quarter circle] big all
Thanks Big Al. I didn't know that. As you have probably gathered from my previous posts I've been "around the block" but my experience with routers is a new one. I'm not too old to learn though. Thanks for your help.