Thread: Leigh Jigs Even Better

Mat,

That looks the ducks nuts for dust control, should mean no more piles of shavings all over the place. I'll be interested to see the release price.

John

Most excellent. Sick of walking out the shed looking like the lower half of me has terminal dandruff. At "under" US$70, it should be about A$180-ish? But Leigh have been very aggresive in their pricing lately so... here's hoping.

Rob.

It may aslo make it a more attractive proposition to us Triton TRA001 owners to get a bit more support for such heavy routers.

How many people are using the Triton TRA001 with the Leigh D1600 or D4R I wonder?

What they should be telling you is that you also need a very good vacumn to get all the material away.

Can you imagine a 1" hose on this, it would clog up in no time.

So $180.00 for the attatchment the another 3-4 hundred for a vacumn that will do the job.

It will be a good upgrade from the vac system they have now.

Originally Posted by Flowboy

Most excellent. Sick of walking out the shed looking like the lower half of me has terminal dandruff. At "under" US$70, it should be about A$180-ish? But Leigh have been very aggresive in their pricing lately so... here's hoping.

Rob.

If it were $70AU I'd grab one as soon as they become available. At $180AU I'll wait to see if this is actually the price.

Originally Posted by Jim Carroll

What they should be telling you is that you also need a very good vacumn to get all the material away.

Can you imagine a 1" hose on this, it would clog up in no time.

So $180.00 for the attatchment the another 3-4 hundred for a vacumn that will do the job.

It will be a good upgrade from the vac system they have now.

Jim, to be fair, although the actual opening appears to be 1", it then goes to a bigger hose, up to 2.5".
This is no different from the Triton RTA300 router table, and that setup works fine with my ShopVac.

I'm sold. I won't even machine dovetails in my shop any more because of the mess. I do them in an aisle in the barn instead and then pick up all the shavings with a pitchfork. I'm just a wee bit concerned about visibility though. I like to see that router bit at all times.

This is no different from the Triton RTA300 router table, and that setup works fine with my ShopVac

This was just my observation on seeing the quote about the 1" fitting and they have the adaptor on it to 2 1/2 ". The larger fitting will be better.

In one regard if all you are doing is short boards then the amount of material removed would not be all that much and the vacs would handle that easily but if you were doing blanket boxes or such then there would be a larger amount going out the waste.

It will be interesting to see them in action.

I have to admit, that it still looks good to me. I can't see too much of a problem with waste removal, unless you've got one of those little Volta vacs designed for cleaning 1 sq meter of carpet in a flat.

While looking at the Leigh site, I noticed that they have released more templates for the FMT. Square ended tenons, wooden slats for windows at 45 degrees (not Microsoft) and mortises at 90 degrees from the cutting face. They look good, but I guess they're gearing up for the Domino invasion in April. Still I do like Leigh stuff and there are still times when it is more appropriate to use a full M&T.

Regards

Rob

Looking at the difference between Canadian/US prices of other Leigh products vs Australian prices my guess is that this product will be around $130 Aus

Looks like it would interfere with the router movement to me. I must be missing something.

Anyone else experimented with rigging up a vacuum hose to the dovetail jig?

Tex

Hi Tex,

I thought the same thing, but I'm assuming the two wire thingies clip to the back of the comb and allow the router to move back and forward, then slide when you slide the router. During routing, I guess the fingers hold it all steady.

I forgot to mention, Carbatech (Melb) have a Leigh produced ancestor to this device in stock, which probably, IMHO, works with the early 4 series and possibly the D4R, but I suspect not the 1600. That's all I know,so you'll have to call them if you want more info.

Tex

The two "wire thingies" copyright flowboy are attached to a plastic piece that runs in a rail under the new device. As the router moves left or right it pushes "wire thingy" which pushes the plastic device (also attached to vacuum) to follow the action. As it (wire thingies) are open at the front end the router can move backwards and forwards without obstruction.

I assume that the new aluminium support is shaped in such a way that only the guide bush can hit it and not the spinning router bit.

Originally Posted by mat

Looking at the difference between Canadian/US prices of other Leigh products vs Australian prices my guess is that this product will be around $130 Aus

I'll wait until the Wood Show - Brisbane - to see how much they are or Sydney if I can make it. Hopefully they are a little cheaper at the shows. The Brisbane Show this year is in April rather than May as per usual(April 20,21 and 22).