On 10/01/2012 20:45, TMC wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 10/01/2012 16:10, TMC wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 10/01/2012 09:12, TMC wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 08/01/2012 23:19, TMC wrote:
"Osprey" wrote in message
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On Jan 8, 10:16 pm, "TMC" wrote:
has anyone used one of these and are they any good
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster...l-router-fence...
I made my own out of MDF ... why not make your own ... will be exact
size you want then.
I took advice form some guys here who had done this ... and made
mine.
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
Since pics were taken ... complete it to have ...
Added melamine faced ply faces to the vertical section .. these
allow
wood to slide easily and will be replaced as necessary, split so
I can
offset when needed.
extract hose port fitted to rear box.
I also made up a truing jig, so I used my router with a wide bit and
made sure horizontal face and vertical face were true and exactly 90
degrees ... although 1" MDF should have been true, I think my gluing
up & biscuit jointing had put some stresses in it, and it had
warped a
little, less than a mm, but it was easy enough to correct.
I built my Table with TREND router table insert plate ... well worth
the cost, my TREND T11 has a great micrometer adjustment, that works
from above table when Router is in place.
yep thats the sort of thing I had in mind to make I was looking for
the
T bolts and knobs when I came across the axminster one hence the
question
I have the Freud 2200 1/2 inch router with the micro adjuster I will
need to turn it from below but it is easy to do
On that point, remember to leave enough height to get your mit in to
twiddle it. Its a bit close on mine!
I was thinking of a full height table rather than a bench top one so
height should be no problem although I could be persuaded otherwise
I was thinking that the router table is quite high when on a 400mm
high
bench top stand although having said that it would be no higher
than the
planer table on my bench top planer thicknesser
Pros and cons anyone?
I use a trend table, which is reasonably tall, although only just
enough for comfortable use with the freud. I have a permanent based
fixed to this with a cross bar on the underside. This then clamps into
a workmate on its tall setting. That gets the table height up to chest
height which is reasonably comfortable work on.
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so well high then and much higher than any of the ones in the online
videos
Yup... I am fairly tall, so find normal workbenches a bit low anyway,
but for routing I like to have stuff nearer to the peepers! I am not
generally trying to hump heavy timbers onto the table, so its not
really a disadvantage.
incidentally did you have to drill the trend plate for the router fixing
screww or did they match up with the trend ones?
Trend used to do several versions, and it was a case of buying the one
that did your router. Plate D IIRC fits the Freud FT2000E without any
drilling.
Also (and I have not even looked ot the router and how it would fit to a
plate) did you remove the black plastic from the router base plate prior
to fixing on does it fit straight on
Turns out you need that plastic bit left on to get the depth of screw
thread to fix into... (DAMHIK!)
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Hi John
It would appear that the plate you got was for the MK2 table which has
now been discontinued
Yup, mine is a MK2 table...
A couple of places still have them listed on their websites but not the
same places as have the type d plates listed
The MK3 appears to have a removable aluminium plate pre drilled for the
Trend T11 which I guess would need to be drilled to take the Freud
Quite possibly... still if its an ali plate, it ought to be easy enough
to drill.
good to find out about the plastic plate though as I would have removed it
Yup, tried that, got the tee shirt!
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Cheers,
John.
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