Router table is back again

Along with the router that doesn't fit in the hole. :-)

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The3rd Earl Of Derby
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Reply to
Andy Hall

Thats the womens isle. :-P

I'll have a cheapo biscuit jointer for 23GBP. :-)

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

Ugh, they're selling baby bodies as well.

Reply to
Guy King

receiver case, like this:

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mine is rotten and woodwormed? And would I need the table and anything else except a plane and handsaw, which they are also offering, and some wood, of course? Martin

Reply to
Martin Crossley

Course a router can make an box like that.

But looking at that the bulk of the work is done with a saw,the rebates and square cutout holes and rounding edges with the router.

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

It's about 30 years since I did woodwork at school, so I've never seen a router. I have used an end-mill, though, and I used to be a dab-hand with a Surform! I think I'll treat myself.

Reply to
Martin Crossley

Suitable for Digestives or Rich Teas, no doubt.....

Do they include a packet with the deal?

Reply to
Andy Hall

The advantage of the table is that you can do rebates, round edges and so on against a fence - effectively a bit like a milling machine but you move the workpiece. This is often far easier than holding the wood in a vice and struggling to keep the router vertical, in contact, etc. The bits they have on offer will be pretty nasty but may well do for as a starter - go to Axminsters for a big range of better quality ones.

I've recently discovered the Biscuit Jointer which is a wonderful tool for butt joining two planks and also presumably for corner joints. As a strong believer in the philosphy of buying cheaply to try something out, the Aldi one at =A323 would seem a good buy.

Rob

Reply to
robgraham

I know it was discussed with soome incredulity last time that Aldi were running simultaneous promotions on a router and an incompatible router table - are they really so daft as to do it again!? Does the table still not fit this router?

David

Reply to
Lobster

The biscuit jointer looks to be the same FERM model sold in screwfix a while ago for more money. I asked in a couple of newsgroups before I bought one ( just needed it for one job) and it was highly recommended by woodworkers as being of much better quality than other Ferm tools and well worth buying. I've had it for two years and ended up using it much more than I thought I would.

If it is the Ferm in disguise, it is a very good tool. A lot noisier than a Dewalt and a little heavier but it does the job wonderfully. I wouldn't normally buy cheap tools, I subscribe to Andy's philosophy of "you gets what you pay for" but there are exceptions to most rules.

Reply to
Jeff

Of course. Why would you expect to find any brains at a grocery warehouse?

They got it mixed up with their promotion of portable GPS navigators that work on 24v AC. Those are next to the chocolate teapots and ashtrays for motorbikes.

Reply to
Andy Hall

would use it for _something_) However that's not to say that just buying a router will give you cabinets.

Most of those "Utility" pieces were made from lots of pieces of thin ply, glued together. Your main tool is something like a small table saw that can cut accurately square panels. The router might come in handy for any decorative grooving, edge rounding, and especially for pattern routing of oddly shaped speaker holes and the like.

Reply to
dingbat

That's pretty unfair Andy. Some folk have to work there to just earn money. Doesn't mean they are stupid. (I don't work there btw - but then I have 2 uni science degrees and many years elec eng experience but can't get a job as am well over 50). Maybe I'll apply (and get turned down no doubt). Guess I'm just plain stupid... hang on though, the age desc. thing is happening this w/end so maybe thing will improve :)

Reply to
Mike

I'm more interested in the claim "Fits most routers (up to 155mm diameter)"

Anybody know?

Jim A

Reply to
Jim Alexander

And Aldi pay well[1] and don't keep their shops open the length of hours that Tesco and others do.

Owain

[1] As in many places pay a lot less for the same sort of work.
Reply to
Owain

Thats the routers base plate

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

It's simply a case of stupid mixed merchandising.

Either they should be a grocery and greengrocery warehouse, and cater for the low end market as they seem to do, or they should sell tools and machinery.

Every week they demonstrate their ineptitude at doing the latter so they really should pack it in and focus on core competence.

Reply to
Andy Hall

Behave a router alone will give you that cabinet pieces.

A router can give you square cut panels.

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

You mean better drills?

Jim A

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Jim Alexander

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