Bosch RA1125 7-Piece Router Template Guide Set | 
| Brand: Bosch
List Price: $42.76
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 417
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 5.7 x 2.5
MPN: RA1125
Model: RA1125
UPC: 000346311679
EAN: 0000346311679
ASIN: B000063XTX
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 7-piece tool-free router template guide kit | | • | Includes most popular template guide sizes; adapter for use with Porter-Cable, Black & Decker, other routers | | • | Aluminum construction | | • | Includes Bosch RA1100, RA1103, RA1105, RA1109, RA1113, RA1115, RA1121 template guides; case | | • | 1-year warranty |
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Product Description
7-piece kit includes 6 Bosch tool-free templet guides in most popular sizes - Features: Also includes RA1100 Adapter to allow use w/ Porter-Cable, Black & Decker, or any threaded templet guides - Includes: RA1100 #Template guide adapter * RA1103 #Templet Guide * RA1105 #Templet Guide * RA1109 #Templet Guide * RA1113 #Templet Guide * RA1115 #Templet Guide * RA1121 #Templet Guide - Specifications: Part Number: RA1125, Used on Model No. : 1613, 1613AEVS, 1613EVS, 1614, 1614EVS, 1617, 1617EVS, 1618, 1618EVS, 1619EVS.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Don't forget the PC Adapter! August 19, 2004
DK
109 out of 109 found this review helpful
This is a great set of the most common sized template guides. They come in a nice, sturdy case that has room for 3 extra guides should you buy another size. What's great about these adapters is that they snap into your Bosch router - quick and easy and they stay in place.
However, the REAL selling point of this guide set is that it comes with the RA1100 threaded guide adapter. This adapter allows you to use Porter-Cable template guides in a Bosch Router. Many reviewers complain when they buy a PC dovetail jig or inlay kit that comes with a PC template guide, that it doesn't fit in their router...One guy hemmed and hawed that he had to create a custom baseplate for his Bosch router so that he could use his PC template guide! There's an easier way! It's the RA1100. It too snaps into the router just like a template guide, but it's slot is just the right size to fit threaded guides from PC. It's the ultimate in versatility.
Great guide set, but the PC adapter makes it a must own.
simple template changes June 3, 2002
A. Weber (Florida)
102 out of 110 found this review helpful
I have recently purchaed a Bosch router and love it. It came with the adapter for these templates and they make changing different sizes a snap. No locking collar, just essentially snap them in and your ready to do dovetails, follow patterns, etc.
not bad February 16, 2005
The Happy Clamper (Edmonds, Wa United States)
49 out of 51 found this review helpful
These work allright but aren't the best made guide bushings out there. They're made up of 2 pieces pressed together kind of like a rivet. They're ok, but not heavy duty. The Porter Cable type guide bushings are a little beefier & made with thicker metal. What I ended up using was just the PC adapter (available by itself at any wood working store), a set of PC guide bushings (available anywhere) & a centering pin. Make sure to close the lever tight on the Bosch template adapter, otherwise it can move around & the bit won't be centered in the bushing. Personally I find these reviews very helpful & want to say thanks to the people who write them. They can definitely save us some time, money & headaches. If you have an opinion on a product I encourage you to put it in writing. Happy wood working!!
 OK, but here's a way to save money May 23, 2007
Drew Heywood (Richmond, VA USA)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
The Bosch template adapters are handy due to the quick-change feature, but they are poorly made, among the few Bosch products I don't enthusiastically recommend. If you own a set of Porter-Cable adapters, you can save $15 by getting the RA1100 PC-Bosch adapter alone. Amazon has it for less than $7. It is cast (not stamped), solid, and locks into my Bosch routers very securely. The PC adapters fit the RA1100 very closely, so there are no problems with slop or poor centering. This is my preferred method of using template adapters on my Bosch routers.
BOSCH Tool-free Templet Guide Adapter for Competitor Templet Guides RA1100
 Cheap Guides September 20, 2006
KB (St. Charles County, MO)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
These guides are cheap 2-piece guides with the "barrel" guide swaged into the "base". You would be better off to just buy the PC adaptor from a Bosch Service Center and buy PC templates or a PC guide set. True the BOSCH snaps in but I had one come apart at the swage, the first time I used it, dropping the barrel of the guide into the mortise I was routing, while the bit was spinning. Ruined a $32 bit and the guide was ruined. Bosch offered to replace the guide, but I would have had to package it and ship it and wait for who knows how long to recieve the replacement. I just chucked the guides and replaced them with Porter Cable guides. You would be better off to just buy the PC adaptor from the Bosch Service Center and buy a PC template guide set. These guides are cheap, poorly made JUNK.
NOTE: If you ever plunge your router into the top of the BOSCH guide (let the collet nut even touch the guide- and who hasn't) both your guide and your bit will be history, due to the swaged construction. Also, if the swage is loose (and it will get loose if you use it) your route will be sloppy and the guide will probably contact the cutting edge of the bit. I say this from experence, not to dog the product. I love the router, hate the guides.
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