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Thread: New Router, money is the object
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7th October 2010, 05:25 AM #31Originally Posted by SilentDave
The router table comes with a host of accessories, shown here. The metal fence fits through the table via T-bolts and has alignment scales in both inches and millimetres.The MDF fence facings are spring-loaded and can be used as jointing guides with the supplied shim sets. The vertical hold-downs are infinitely adjustable to keep stock tight to the table.
The guard is in two parts and includes a dust extraction port. The base of the guard can be clipped directly to the table for free-hand work, where it is designed to double as a lead-in pin. Two sizes of bayonet-fitting insert are provided, plus a sliding table and protractor. Also seen are the two horizontal pressure fingers, which can also be fitted directly to the table for planing operations.
The table top has very clear markings, showing the rotation of the router and the workpiece feed direction.
This rear view shows the T-bolts and the pairs of double springs that hold the fence facings. Fence shims, used to advance the outfeed face, are stored in pairs on the outer braces. The braces are adjustable to ensure a perfect 90° to the table top.
Also seen are the microadjusters, fitted into the T-slots behind the fence and used to ease the fence forward when minute changes are required. They store on the fence itself.
That said, the table top is pressed steel, as is the grey insert plate. The main problem in using pressed steel is that it's not always perfectly flat and the insert can sometimes be proud of the table top - not conducive to a good routing experience!
The fence has some quite clever features, but is very fiddly to assemble and will not survive intact from a drop onto a hard surface.
For the cost involved you could make yourself a router table that works how you want it to - I don't mean a full-on "Norm" table - just figure out what you want it to do. See here for one possibility. HTH
Finally, variable speed is essential if you're going to be using larger cutters, such as panel raisers and big profiling bits. It's also nice to have another method of reducing burn with some wood species.
Ray
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