I use a pair of needle nose vise grips and just give it a light tightening. Otherwise it's loosey goosey every time...
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| Author: | RussellR [ Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:44 am ] |
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I have the stewmac router base for my dremel and the post with out the spring has acquired a nasty habit of undoing its self, it never used to do this before do you guys know of any way to tighten it up a little, or is it just worn out. |
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| Author: | old man [ Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:33 pm ] |
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Russell, you might try wrapping a turn of teflon tape around the threads. Like plumbers use for pipe threads. Ron |
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| Author: | KiwiCraig [ Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:23 pm ] |
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Hi Russell, Have you tried "Loctite" ? |
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| Author: | Colin S [ Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:08 pm ] |
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Russell, mines never done this as far as I can remember. Without it to hand I can't be sure but could you not just fit springs to that side as well? Colin |
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| Author: | Paul Schulte [ Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:54 pm ] |
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Hi Russell, I noticed that if I don't torque that knurled nut down good it does tend to loosen up. I haven't noticed a problem since I applied a little more elbow grease to tighten it. An option is to maybe put a lock washer on the lower knurled nut between it and the router mount assembly. |
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| Author: | Shane Neifer [ Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:03 am ] |
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I agree with Craig, use Loctite. The red stuff they claim is 'permanent' and the blue stuff is just to keep them tight. I used both when I made my aluminum router base and installed studs and different fixtures. It works great! I don't think that the permanent stuff is so permanent that you couldn't undo it if you wanted. Shane |
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:08 am ] |
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I use a pair of needle nose vise grips and just give it a light tightening. Otherwise it's loosey goosey every time...
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| Author: | tippie53 [ Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:40 am ] |
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I use a jam nut. This is easy to loosen to make adjustments |
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| Author: | RussellR [ Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:09 am ] |
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Russell 
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