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Default Router "sled" for flattening bench top - low friction?

It "comes" in 4 x 8 and 5 x 10' sheets as a rule. You didn't indicate if
color or finish were critical to your application (in the post I read) and
if that is correct, wait. I've seen customer returns marked down
significantly at HD & LOWES (customer ordered 005678 and got 015678 leaving
the store with a full sheet they can't return) and often the corners get
dinged waiting for a buyer.

Whatever it's price (should you find one of these), get the department
manager and offer him 25% of the list price for an "in stock" sheet and you
may well get the bargain you need.

They also let you take the pallet wood bits for free - make a sturdy frame
for a router table in my case. Most are roughly two-y's (with a groove for
the strapping) about four foot long. Some of the stuff is really dense
hardwood, most seems to be pine.

They also have a scrap lumber cart with items "priced" by applying a spray
of various colored paint. If you've got a suitable conveyance with you and
see cart chock full of something(s) you can really use - consider getting
the Lumber Dept Mgr and offering him $15 for the lot.

I wound up with tongue and grooved (special order) two by six P.T. lumber
sufficient to serve as the entire floor for a neat little garden shed (looks
like a small house, actually) for $15.

Never hurts to make an offer.
"bent" wrote in message
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I too way gonna comment on the formica. I've senn it at HD, but its as
much as a whole countertop. I only want a few square feet. Where could
get I it; i.e. what about getting smallish pieces. Don't mind paying for
it, but at HD you need to break a hun!


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