Router table is builded!!

[Wild Dingo]

Well sweet she aint... good lookin she aint either... fancy cabinet she definantly hasnt got... but by gar shes a router table and she works a right treat!... Couple of old drawers attached to a peice of malamite attached to some strips of pine and WHACKO!!!





Will have a hunt around to try to find a better setup for the straight edge but she works! no worries!



SAWDUST!!... well okay ROUTERDUST!!



AND best thing is? shes mobile!!! yaaahoooie!

Howzat???

Feels mighty fine bein able to use this thing to actually hold a straight line!! HA!

[whb]

Shane she looks great.

If I can suggest I would put some plywood across the ends of your supports for diagonal bracing.
And maybe even some diagonals between your legs (er rather the routers tables legs).

You don't want to lean on the table and have it shift.

Howard

[Ron Williamson]

I don't see anything wrong with the straight-edge that you've got(unless it isn't straight),but you may want to chisel away a bunch of wood at the back of that half round cutout so that the chips and waste don't build up and get tossed back into the work.How's that for a run on sentence?
R
PS We fasten one end of the fence with a bolt, and clamp the other end,instead of using two clamps.It's much easier to adjust that way.

[brian.cunningham]

Originally posted by whb:
Shane she looks great.

If I can suggest I would put some plywood across the ends of your supports for diagonal bracing.
And maybe even some diagonals between your legs (er rather the routers tables legs).

You don't want to lean on the table and have it shift.

Howard

Or brace it with some peg board, then you've got a place to hang your bits and other tools.

[huisjen]

When my little Skil bench table saw died this year, I was able to remove its fence and attach it to our flimsy little craftsman router table. It doesn't let shavings clear as well, but it's a lot more stable and easier to set than the original equipment. It's supposed to be self squaring, so it only clamps on one end. On the saw, the other end clamped too, but now I just add a quick-clamp on the far side of the router table. All I had to do was attach that bar that it rides on (a square aluminum tube) to one side of the router table with a few spacers to give the fence end room to clamp.

Dan

[Bruce Taylor]

Good going, Shane!

One more suggestion...that particle board/melamine stuff tends to sag, over time. It's important that the surface remain dead flat. So, if you haven't done so already, I'd screw a couple of horizontal beams to the underside of the table (angle bar, square tubing, or some nice stiff hardwood...whatever is strong, straight, and available).

[edsr]

Shane - Routers make a hellava mess. A quick cure is to mount a vacuum cleaner nozzle close to the bit. A cheap garage sale machine and a plactic bottle cut to fit and will cure most of the flying dirt problems. Looks good now go make something! Wear hearing protectors.
edsr