"Dave Gower" wrote in message
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I was silly enough to believe that the craphead salesman at the tool
department of a local building superstore actually knew what he was talking
about. I said I wanted a router table for home use so he sold me a Porter
Cable 968 router table, a Skill 1 1/4 hp plunge router and a set of Freud
bits. Well after a lot of hairpulling and two trips back to the store it
has become obvious that there is absolutely no way that the router can be
mounted to the table, nor can an adapter plate help, since the holes
partially overlap, and there's no way to get bolt heads and nuts between
the table, router base and an adapter plate.

I don't want to take this all back because actually the router is very
useful as a hand tool, so I want to keep that for off-table use. The table
is a precision, robust set-up and I have it solidly mounted to a base, so
I want to keep that also.

My problem is to get any of these geniuses at the building centres to tell
me what routers I can actually mount to the table. (It's "well maybe Fred
knows but he's off today" or "I heard there's a guy at a store on the
other side of town who might know"). All the routers they have on display
have the same hole patterns as my Skil, that is they don't match the
table.

I've been all over the Web including the Porter-Cable website and can't
find anything that tells me what routers are compatible with what tables.

Given how popular router tables are I find it incredible that this should
be so tricky. Any knowledgeable advice would be appreciated.

try rec.woodworking.

i'd expect that any p-c router would fit a p-c tabletop.