The dadiOH entity posted thusly:

Oleg Lego wrote:
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.

I just measured my Freud guide bushings. Some of the barrels are quite
long, two are about 1/4" already, and 1 is about 3/16 or a tad less.

Of course I cannot mount any of the bushings to my router base, as the
hole in the router base is far too large. I did not mount the router
base to the table insert. It never occurred to me to do so. I used the
router base only as a drilling template. I then mounted the router
fixed base directly to the table base. In case we are speaking
different languages here (it would not surprise me)...

router base: plastic 'foot' attached to fixed (or plunge) base

fixed (or plunge) base: metal thingy that the motor fits into, with
holes to mount router base

table base: plastic rectangular thingy that holds two concentric
removable inserts, the innermost of which is the right size to hold
the Freud guide bushings.

I suppose I could buy Skil's adapter and guide bushings, but I do plan
on getting another (better) router at some future point, and it would
be better to be able to use all the same bushings, I think.