Thread: Plunge Bars

Obviously no one had any advice re the Plunge Bars, so I took the plunge (!) and ordered some from Woodrat in the UK. They duly arrived, and I fitted them to my Hitachi router which is installed in a router table.
The Plunge bars work exceptionally well. I undo the height locking mechanism of the router with one hand, controlling the position of the router with the other by use of the Plunge Bars. Extremely fine adjustment is possible just using the Plunge Bars, and the router is then locked at the selected height in the usual manner.
The process of adjusting theheight of the router bit in my table has been made much easier.

thanks for that report adeben

Couldn't find prices anywhere on the website.
Can you give a rough idea of what it cost inc postage?

Jim

They cost about $41 plus $17 for shipping, for a total of $58.
Make sure you get the correct type of bars for your make and model of router (There seem to be several different types of bars, each requiring a different mode of fitting.) The Hitachi units were very easy to fit, and could be mounted so that they can be operated from either one side or the other of the router.

Thank you.

Can you please post some photos showing how they work?

Originally Posted by JillB

Can you please post some photos showing how they work?

Here you go Jill, a short video showing how they work.

http://www.woodrat.com/plungebars.html

Thanks DJ, very interesting, I have never seen one of these before

Originally Posted by JillB

Thanks DJ, very interesting, I have never seen one of these before

Neither had I till this thread was posted, I'll probably end up buying one for my Hitachi