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Hi All,
I needed help mouting a Dewalt Router to a Sears Table saw with router kit, any idea.
One day I was in Sears and they had a good quality cast iron table saw for sale with a hole at one end to attach a router.
So thinking it was a great deal – two in one package I bought it.
At that time I was considering buying a Porter Cable router but since they did not have any in that store, I bought a Dewalt Router, what I was told by the sales guy was a good router and it did look good as it has a plunger feature that can be removed. The sales guy told me that the holes were standard on the table and will accommodate any common brand routers.
Well the table saw took me a long time to assemble as it has all legs made of multiple plates, etc and is heavy as it is built drive. By the time I got to try to fit the router to the table it was over 30 days since I bought it, the router holes don’t line up at all and screws do not fit either and Sear will not credit me as it is over 30 days.
So I went to the store and they sold me a square plastic plate and said that would work. But that did not work either as the cast iron table has a round hole about 2 inch in diameter and not a big square plastic plate as found on most router tables. Also the screws that come with the router are too short to go through that thick castiron top.
Anyway, the bottom-line is that I cannot mount the new Dewalt Router on to that table- do you have any suggestions as to how I can make this work.
After a long time I went to another Sears store last week and asked the same question and the sales guy told me something unbelievable- he told me that I needed to drill holes in the cast iron table saw top to make my Dewalt Router Fit.
I needed help mouting a Dewalt Router to a Sears Table saw with router kit, any idea.
One day I was in Sears and they had a good quality cast iron table saw for sale with a hole at one end to attach a router.
So thinking it was a great deal – two in one package I bought it.
At that time I was considering buying a Porter Cable router but since they did not have any in that store, I bought a Dewalt Router, what I was told by the sales guy was a good router and it did look good as it has a plunger feature that can be removed. The sales guy told me that the holes were standard on the table and will accommodate any common brand routers.
Well the table saw took me a long time to assemble as it has all legs made of multiple plates, etc and is heavy as it is built drive. By the time I got to try to fit the router to the table it was over 30 days since I bought it, the router holes don’t line up at all and screws do not fit either and Sear will not credit me as it is over 30 days.
So I went to the store and they sold me a square plastic plate and said that would work. But that did not work either as the cast iron table has a round hole about 2 inch in diameter and not a big square plastic plate as found on most router tables. Also the screws that come with the router are too short to go through that thick castiron top.
Anyway, the bottom-line is that I cannot mount the new Dewalt Router on to that table- do you have any suggestions as to how I can make this work.
After a long time I went to another Sears store last week and asked the same question and the sales guy told me something unbelievable- he told me that I needed to drill holes in the cast iron table saw top to make my Dewalt Router Fit.