How to Install a Router Bit

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Hi my name's Kevin and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to install a router bit. In general, there are two size shanks that router bits come in. Half inch and quarter inch and we have two different size collets to fit them. So just depending on what size bit you get, it's pretty obvious which one it will fit in. So on this one, we'll just go ahead and use the quarter inch collet so what you want to do is take the bit, insert it into the collet here and then you take that and you put it into the router here and you turn it until you can tighten it no further by hand and then from there we get the wrenches again. And as we did when we removed them, we want to put these as close together as possible and then grab it one hand, do it like that, generally it will take about two of those passes. And you can give it even a third just to make sure its nice and snug. But yeah, what you don't want to get in is a situation where you're trying to tighten and then you're slipping your hands and they're running into each other. It just tends to work out much easier if you can position it like that and then just squeeze those two together with one hand. It tends to be a lot safer and a lot easier on the knuckles. So once you've gotten tightened in there, stand it back up, put the base back on and then clip it in place.

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