Alan wrote:
Stephen wrote:

Hi,

I understand that last Thursday's deals included a router and table.
I haven't been to see if my store has any left. Is it worth the
journey? Are they any good?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Looks like the same model they had last time around - if so ...
I bought one and it's fairly Ok. The only gripe I had was with the
guide system. The basic frame is a plastic moulding and the two
'wings' didn't seen exactly straight to me - not far out but ...
In the end I made a replacement from some left over laminate
floorboards - a bit tedious but everything works fine now :-)

Alan

Alan,

I bought the el-cheapo Aldi router table to do a one-off job at the
beginning of the year - and spent half a day making a new (straight) guide,
sorting out the 'bent' on-and-off feed tables, adapting the router table
fixing plate holes to fit the Aldi router that I bought two years ago [1]
and sorting out the electric supply cable so that I could use it without
having to fit a bloody great extension cable.

[1] The router tables were the same, but they altered the router
baseplate holes on the newer models - and they don't sell the old type table
baseplate as a 'retro-fit'.

All great fun, but it did the job after all that and is now in 'retirement'
sitting on the workshop floor buried under a pile of off-cuts.

Cash