A year or so ago I did a lot of checking on the router lifts,
Mainly because i have just screwed the base to peice of laminated wood and
clamped a straight peice of wood to the table for a fence.
Still to this day one of the best set-ups there is for all of the gizmo's
out there.
So far the only thing that warms my heart is not pulling the motor down to
change bit which on some days be 10 to 15 times on one machine.
Kinda like the micro up & down adjustment also..

Anyway I found the better unit was from Woodpecker, with The Jessum a close
second
Nothing else compared

Granted the lift alone is 300 right now but you caam get about 10% Of that
Pay an extra 30.00 for the adapter for the Bosch 1617 and get the Bosch
1617 straight motor no VS
And if you do enough WW get two so you do not have to be pulling them out of
the table when you need a hand held operation.

Okay quit adding it all up, I get the Bosch 1617 for 110.00 and I hope they
did not go up at the first because
they told me the price was good untill the first and i did not call up and
order a couple of more last WED.

How do I get this price, Go to a Bosch service center and ask about
refurbished tools, They still carry the one year warranty they are
considered new.

At one time i would have said Ya right Up yours on refurbished tools.
I have 7 of the 1617 that I bought refurbished Never a problem, And from
what i can gather what i do to a router in a week takes some of you all
year. I have never had a problem with any of them.
Well There was a small problem with the bases one from a refurb and one from
one of the new ones,
Long story will post it later But because of it Bosch is retooling the
making off the base

George







"Subw00er" wrote in message
om...
I'm looking for opinions here. I'd like to install a router lift into
my saw table extension and want to spend somewhere around $400-450 for
both the router and lift. I've heard good things about the Jet xacta
lift (I have a jet saw) and the woodpecker version (not sure its worth
$300?!).

I am tentatively planning on the xacta lift and a dewalt router (I'm
partial to dewalt, but not sure of their router's abilities yet).
Ideally, I'd get a router that had a plunge and standard base so I
could permanenetly mount the base to the router lift and use the plung
when needed. I'd definitely want the removal of teh router to be quick
and if the router had a shaft lock thats a plus.

As if you hadn't guessed, I'm new to routers... but I only like buying
tools once!