Router machine set up like a metal mill?

[andrew whicker]

Anyone use one of these guys? They look interesting.

publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=1776096

[Roger Feeley]

I used one in college. We called it a pin router. That pedal at the base will raise the bed under the overarm router. You can mount a pin exactly under the router bit and then attach a template to the underside of the work (with clamps for mass production). You put the work so the pin is in the template, lower the motor and route your pattern.

I have kind of the same thing on my router table in reverse. I have an overarm pin that I can lower into a template. What I can't do is use a pedal to raise the router into the work.

[Larry Copas]

I have one and frequently used it for pattern work. Just made about 60' of trim that fits up to a corrugated metal ceiling.

CNC has turned the bigger quality machines into boat anchors. Little machines like the one in the auction can still do useful and productive work.

[Art Mann]

That just looks like an ordinary heavy duty mortising machine to me.

[andrew whicker]

Aaahhh, that's pretty nifty.

[Frank Drew]

That just looks like an ordinary heavy duty mortising machine to me.

If you could attach a square chisel to the chuck I guess it could cut mortises, but it's really not set up for that (the table goes up and down, not the cutter head; no built in left-right movement of the table; no built-in clamping for the workpiece). All those would also rule out efficient slot mortising.