Originally Posted by
Mark Bolton
Jim.. if you cross thread the coarse thread spindle in your router.. you deserve to be relegated to a walker, straw, rubber spoon, and potty chair.... come on man.
Mark, it can happen and I've seen at least one online post where it did for some unfortunate soul. Remember, I don't have an ATC, so I'm changing tooling manually during a file run, albeit with automatic measuring. Some of my stuff uses three different sized collets, so I just try to take care for obvious reasons. It only takes one moment of stupidity and none of us are immune from those moments...
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