Yes, but that can be more complicated than it¡¯s worth. I have .750 diameter router bits for dados in Melamine (which measures like .740), and then I have a .720 bit for plywood that is undersize.
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On Mar 11, 2021, at 8:45 AM, Bill Belanger <
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Another thought...
With our saws being as accurate as they are, multiple passes with a regular saw blade should suffice without the need for something dedicated?
Bill B¨¦langer?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 08:29 Brian Lamb <
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Get the right sized router bits and your dado¡¯s are one pass. They make bits for full size and undersize of pretty much any thickness.
On Mar 10, 2021, at 9:48 PM, Stephen Zielke <
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Thanks all. I enjoyed the shop photos of dual saws.?
Hmm, that's kind of a bummer, I might not have bought the saw if I'd known it was not dado compatible. I falsely assumed that since the new machines could do it, that it was in the legacy machines.?
The new 2020 catalog seems to indicate the part number for the router spindle is #401-136. I assume either this is a typo, or the replacement for part #400-136. I will get the serial number for my machine and talk to the sales team before buying anything. I am planning on selling my other Rojek slider (with a 5/8" US style arbor, just fine for dados) to pay for the KF700, and wouldn't have room in my 1 car garage shop to really do back-back machines (back to back saw-shapers does sound tempting in a crazy wayl). But, I have a portable jobsite saw for work that can still run the dado - I'll see if it makes sense to set it up into an outfeed table. I'll probably end up using that, in tandem with rabbetting cutter in the shaper.?
The high speed spindle will be an "aspirational" purchase, maybe next year. It seems expensive, but when I consider how much tooling for it I already own, and the cost of full size 30mm tooling, it's actually worth investing in. Would certainly get me back to the dado like operations for groves in the middle of wide panels. Just more room for error with multiple passes, compared to shimming a dado and then production cutting.?
Steve
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