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Hello Tour and welcome to the Router Forums. A finer group of members can't be found. They will answer your questions and help you anyway they can.

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Corey

Hello Tour and Welcome to the forum. We aim to please so ask away.

W e l c o m e . . A b o a r d . . . Tour

The more questions you ask, the more you will learn.

Thanks Joe,
Ok here is the first of mine. What is the better routers to use in a table top cast iron top. I have one that I am dieing to put a router in.
By the way I have hawked your site long begor gettig here
Tour

Tour, as a rule we suggest using the fixed base from a combo kit for table mounting, or removing springs from a plunge router. Either way will work fine. As far as which brand, this is a personal choice. Why don't you spend a moment and read my blog; Sawdust Dreams in the blogging section. It has good information on choosing a router, bits and other items.

Thanks Mike. I guess I should get a larger one for my shop> Even though It is growing to a cabinet shope pretty soon Mos all of my other things are very industrial, mostly 3 ph. If you like I could sen you some pics of what I have thus far
Tour

We would love to see some pics of your shop Tour!

Corey

Oh to have the room in my shop like yours. Looks as though you are ready for some serious woodworking.

Thanks Mike. All I have wanted to do since I worked in a cabinet shop while going to college was woodwork. I got a pretty good job out of college and it has paid well but been it's like a chair you couldl never get seated good in. So for the last 3 yrs I have been gathering tools and putting together a shop so I can quit my job and wood work. Now I have no grand ideas of makeing a pile of money but i do want to be able at the end of the day to leave work smileing and look fwd to going back the next day
Tour

Nice shop Tour, you got some real heavy duty tools in there!

Corey

Thanks gentalmen. I am lluck to have a woman that likes wood working or the things that can be made from wood and an old house 100yr old, that we are going to restore /remodel. So I will be posting pics as we move throught the house if everyone would be intrested in that. I am trying to get some wormy chestnut wood now to build cabinets for the kitchen.
Yes Joe its a Fay&Egan shaper. Monster.7 1/2 hp that thing weighs 2500 lbs
I poured 6 in of concrete with rebar in the floor for all this stuff.
I just bought a 25" sander for the cabinets and I hope it will be here in a few days.
If any of you guys are ever around this part of the country it would be a big honor for me if you would drop by and say hello and have a pot of caffine and I am sure the misses would have apple pies or maybe some novacs soon to follow
Tour
Oh that gray thing in the corner.... most can't tell from the pic is a tenon machine. I forget to lable things most of the time

Hi Tour
NICE SHOP

I see the 3 ph. breaker box on the wall , how did you get them to drop in 3 ph. power for a home shop ? or are you in a comm. building lot. ?

I wish I could get them to do that for my shop but they said NO WAY BUD
I could get a converter but it's a bit of a pain to do that.
But the 3ph.equipment is almost always the best and can be had at the right price.

Bj

Thanks Bob
Actually I live in TVA territory. On the cornor of my property there use to be a pump house for the water dept. The canisters are still on the pole for the 3 ph. It cost me a total of one time fee of $600 to hook up + $8 a month for the power.
Yes I get some nice machines because no one has the power for 3 ph.

Tour

Hi Tour

TVA= ??? = Tennessee Valley Electric ?
My shop has it's own meter and it runs me about 15.oo month if I don't do any welding that is. I wish I could get mind down to 8.oo per. but 3ph. is a lot cheaper to run.
I see you are using light duty wire for your 3ph. how does that work for you ?, how do you get by without running the wire in pipe ?.

Bj

Bj

I will be building walls in front of the wireingI have some o fthem framed just not finishde. As long as there is a wall in front of the wireing no need for pipeing. The wireing is 10 fo rthe ph 3 stuff. The box is dual voltage I can run 110,220, or 230 3ph out of it.
Tour