Oleg Lego wrote:
The dadiOH entity posted thusly:

Oleg Lego wrote:

Well, that sounds easy enough, but of course I ran into problems you
didn't, because of the weird hole size in the router base, and my
requirement to incorporate guide bushings.

And that incorporated bushing requirement is the entire source of
your difficulties. Frankly, I can't see any reason to use them on
the table insert. Much easier and more accurate to simply use
bushings on the router plate itself rather than the table insert. A
whole set is cheap (less than $20)...and one really doesn't need a
whole set.

Hmm... are you saying that you don't use bushings when routing with
the router mounted in the table?

Offhand I don't recall doing so but there is no reason I couldn't. But
I'd mount them on the router base and let the barrel stick up through
the hole in the table insert (to which the router base is screwed).
True, you'd lose part of the length of the template barrel but they are
too long anyway (for non-table use) and I always grind mine down to 1/4"
or a bit less long.

dadiOH