156 Re: Laminate Trimmers?
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156 Re: Laminate Trimmers?
From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
Date: 20 Jan 92 13:51:12 GMT
In article 175114DMEJJ@CUNYVM.BITNET, DMEJJ@CUNYVM.BITNET () writes:
|>I am planning on doing a lot of laminate work in the future. The work has
|>many of tight corners and odd shapes. Therefore I am going to buy a
|>laminate trimmer. The first thing it has to have is a offset base for
|>applications that a reg. router can't handle. The two that I am considering
|>are made by Makita (with an offset base) and a Porter Cable kit which
|>comes with a moter, an offset base, a reg. base, a slitter (which makes
|>accurate strips and a tilt base.
|>Does anybody happen to have one of these trimmers or another that was
|>satisfactory.
I have the PC trimmer/router. It is a dream to work with. I hav enot yet
used the slitter, but it looks like it should work well for joining
laminate pieces.
Besides laminate trimming, I use this for light routing, such as
running a small round-over on an edge. It works well, but the
height adjust is somewhat awkward.
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