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Inserting and Adjusting Router Bits

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What happens here

To install or adjust a router bit, locate and press the lock button on the router to secure the spindle. While holding the button, use an adjustable wrench to loosen the collet nut. Insert the chosen router bit into the collet, push it all the way to the bottom, then back it off by approximately an eighth of an inch (1/8"). Re-tighten the collet nut firmly with the adjustable wrench while keeping the lock button engaged to hold the bit in place.

Goal: Securely install and set the depth of a router bit.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench — Tightening and loosening the collet nut
  • Cordless Trim Router Milwaukee — The router being fitted with a bit
  • Router Bit — The cutting tool to be inserted

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are router bits. Now, there's a button on here. This button or like on this one, this button right here. This is going to lock it and so you can loosen your collet. So, just press that red button in and just loosen this. So, go ahead and push this in there. Now, you're going to want to bottom it out and then come off about an eighth of an inch. Take an adjustable and just do a couple turns on there. And now, go ahead and throw this back on.

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