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A few years back, I bought a Ryobi laminate trimmer (the original TR-30U, which is a very good tool — metal body, so both top and bottom bearings run in metal; good separate-sleeve collet — not the throwaway their current tool is). It came with the straight fence, but not the roller guide.
I use it as a small router, never having done any kitchen counters — mostly edge molding, and occasionally the cutting of small rabbets or freehand work with small bits.
Thinking I should buy a replacement collet sleeve while they’re available, I recently priced the collet ($5) and, while I was at it, the roller guide assembly (oops — a little more expensive at $25.62). Since the shipping charge, at $9, is the same with and without the roller guide, I’m wondering how useful people have found these for furniture work, and, since we may re-do the kitchen in the next couple of years, whether the separate roller guide is superior for laminate work to the bearing-on-bit laminate trimming bits.
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A few years back, I bought a Ryobi laminate trimmer (the original TR-30U, which is a very good tool -- metal body, so both top and bottom bearings run in metal; good separate-sleeve collet -- not the throwaway their current tool is). It came with the straight fence, but not the roller guide.
I use it as a small router, never having done any kitchen counters -- mostly edge molding, and occasionally the cutting of small rabbets or freehand work with small bits.
Thinking I should buy a replacement collet sleeve while they're available, I recently priced the collet ($5) and, while I was at it, the roller guide assembly (oops -- a little more expensive at $25.62). Since the shipping charge, at $9, is the same with and without the roller guide, I'm wondering how useful people have found these for furniture work, and, since we may re-do the kitchen in the next couple of years, whether the separate roller guide is superior for laminate work to the bearing-on-bit laminate trimming bits.