Thread: Did i make the wrong choice of router lift?

Hi all,

Just a bit nervous as this is my first post ever, so just bear with me.

Well I have been looking at building my first table router, and I have a solid design in mind, (typical actually). However the router lift is probably the single most time saving and frustration negating item to be incorporated into a fully functional table.

Now as the land down under is completley isolated from the rest of the world, i.e. USA in the fact that there is very little choice within the retail market when it comes to woodworking accersories. Although, the internet has incredilby increased the availability of woodworking supplies from overseas.

I have had in mind the whole time to have the router lift with this table, there are numerous ones available from overseas, but they are only router motor specific. Here in lies the predicament as in Australia the only routers available are traditional trimmers and plunge routers.

Until NOW! @ bunnings today I found an AEG MF1400KE! Which is a plunge router a first, however, upon closer inspection I was able to remove the router motor from the plunging mechanism! YEPPPEEEEEEEEEE! Now I can go to any number of American online woodoworking stores and buy a router lift for my new table for under $400 delivered to my door!

The only downside to this is that i have reserved my very own UNILIFT for my new table router @ a considereable amount for than the $400. Now whilst writing this I have already convinced myself that i have made the right choice with the unilift as follows;

1. The AEG is only 1450W, not really enough grunt for a table router
2. All other router motor lifts that i have found only have 2 shafts that the lift operates from. This is considerably more unstable than the UNILIFT as it has 4 shafts connected to the mechanism
3. As the unilift will universally fit most plunge routers, the power that i can apply is considerably increased as the most powerful plunge router that i could find on the australian market is 2100W.

So What do you guys thing?

Comments plz?