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Going back to the mobile work bench I’m building, it will have a 3/4 plywood top and I’m putting my DW611 router in it for utility work and for just having a second table available in the shop to shape parts or whatever I may need at the moment. So keep in mind it doesn’t have to do precise work. Therefore I don’t want a plate. It’s more important to me to be able to move it around to job sites and use it as more than just a router table.
So I’m just fastening the router to the bottom of the 3/4 plywood and planning to use panhead screws with washers under the heads to screw down from the top into the router base below. I am just guessing but I’ll probably have to drill maybe 1/4 inch deep stepped holes from the top to keep the panheads below the surface. This leaves about 1/2 inch of thickness to hold the router and keep the screws from pulling through.
Now if I were to route a recess from below just to get the router a bit closer to the surface, say 1/8 inch deep, then this shaved down the total thickness between the base and screw heads to 3/8. Is this enough to rely on and not have the weight of the router pull the screws through?
I don’t know about this plywood but it seems a bit soft. Funny thing is I don’t even know what kind it is. It wasn’t advertised as pine. I got it from Home Depot for $40 per sheet and it is very smooth without so much as a blemish on either side. Not even a filled place.
So I’m just fastening the router to the bottom of the 3/4 plywood and planning to use panhead screws with washers under the heads to screw down from the top into the router base below. I am just guessing but I’ll probably have to drill maybe 1/4 inch deep stepped holes from the top to keep the panheads below the surface. This leaves about 1/2 inch of thickness to hold the router and keep the screws from pulling through.
Now if I were to route a recess from below just to get the router a bit closer to the surface, say 1/8 inch deep, then this shaved down the total thickness between the base and screw heads to 3/8. Is this enough to rely on and not have the weight of the router pull the screws through?
I don’t know about this plywood but it seems a bit soft. Funny thing is I don’t even know what kind it is. It wasn’t advertised as pine. I got it from Home Depot for $40 per sheet and it is very smooth without so much as a blemish on either side. Not even a filled place.