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kooskoek

Tue 18 August 2009 18:04

Air-powered routers?

Can one use this router, powered by air, any input would be great.

http://www.michiganpneumatic.com/cus...TR%20Specs.pdf

kooskoek

Tue 18 August 2009 18:17

Here is another air router

http://www.dynabrade.com/dyn09/conte...&search=router

Will this work or am i missing the plot

lumberjack_jeff

Tue 18 August 2009 18:42

They're not very powerful.

normand blais

Wed 19 August 2009 07:03

You need a Big compressor lots of cfm

hennie

Wed 19 August 2009 07:54

Air cost more

kooskoek

Wed 19 August 2009 12:37

Im not to concern about cost just trying to get the router to stop screaming

domino11

Wed 19 August 2009 13:46

I think you will find the air powered motors to be noisier than the router. Or just as bad. I have used high power air motors before and they are all loud.
I think you would want to go to an air cooled or water cooled spindle to keep the noise down.

kooskoek

Wed 19 August 2009 16:46

thx will look into this

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