moss2

Hi - I made myself very good table on a cabinet with drawers, I use a Roesenau Template, the table is 2ft by 3 ft. and 48" high, sits on the cabinet on 4 locking swivel wheels. I have added a back piece so that I can use the router, laying on its side,or from the top or bottom plus added my own system to connect to the Vacum. This is one sweet unit and My Dewalt 625 loves it very much.My fence is set up on track and can attach a larger piece so I can do doors. Most of this material was gotton a garage sales, so my cost on this unit was under $100.00. My template only cost me $10.00. I saved money here and put it into a real good router.

Jim

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Glenmore

I'm so fixed on the room issue that I use a router mat on my table saw for hand held pieces.

reible

My daughter got me one of those a few years back as a gift, I was a little worried about something flying off somewhere and router nose diving into the mat and what ever was below, thus I've never used it for that. It does work for sanding but needs cleaning often.

Ed

reible

Do you have a picture to share?

Ed

BobandRick

I am with you on that one Ed, great for sanding and standing but not very comfortable to use for routing.

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template tom

I add a piece of 25mm MFD to my Triton table then I have my router table for hand held projects also as an assembly table. The 25mm gives rigidity to the top and I also insert 'tee nuts' which I use regularly for holding down material ready to be routered.
Tom

Putzger

A few years back I thought that I had scored a smoking deal on a PC 690 combo kit that included the PC Router table (cost was $130US).

It wasn't too long before I realized that there was a lot of room for improvement with that PC table, so I splurged big time and spent a whoppin' $10 and came up with a Big Improvement that you can see here at http://www.apachetrail.com/ww/RT/index.html

That's since been mostly replaced with a Rockler router table and fence and my Improved Table now mostly serves as a combination storage surface, assembly surface and a clamp-a-workpiece-down-and-whale-away-on-it surface (sometimes all at the same time). It also does do a fine job of holding my dovetail jig in place

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Glenmore

Never had a problem with it so far knock on wood.

reible

I would sleep better at night if you found a better way to do that then the router pad, please for me???

Ed

Mike

2 suggestions for people who rout on the go. Both are plans from Shopnotes. The "Benchtop router table" folds for portability, opens to 32" table length.(Shopnotes #45) The "Stow-away router table" sets up in a vise, Workmate or clamps to a table edge.(Shopnotes #71) Both designs can use the mounting plate from your workshop table making it a breeze when you need to travel to a jobsite.

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