I recently purchased a router to use for speaker building projects. I have used routers before, but am somewhat of a beginner. For the life of me I can't get any of my 1/2" shank router bits to fit into this router.
I've followed the (sparse) instructions, and it seems to be as simple as placing the shank all the way into the collet and then moving it out 1/16" and then tightening. The problem is that I absolutely can't find a way to get the bit to fit into collet. Each bit seems just slightly too large to fit, so I can't even really tighten it, since its not in the hole in the first place.
There's probably some simple thing I'm doing wrong, but I really can't figure this out. Is it possible that there's some kind of defect in my router? Thanks for your help.
I've followed the (sparse) instructions, and it seems to be as simple as placing the shank all the way into the collet and then moving it out 1/16" and then tightening. The problem is that I absolutely can't find a way to get the bit to fit into collet. Each bit seems just slightly too large to fit, so I can't even really tighten it, since its not in the hole in the first place.
There's probably some simple thing I'm doing wrong, but I really can't figure this out. Is it possible that there's some kind of defect in my router? Thanks for your help.
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