Huh? They're only a third of that and only a half of the price of the festering router that they really need. ;-) You can get both and not need a comma.
Router lift recommendations
Jul 16, 2010
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WOW!! And only $14.00 for the Plans!! Definitely go to the web site.
All said, the mother site will likely cost me Hours.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:54:21 -0700, "Lobby Dosser" wrote the following:
Total cost (with owner already owning a router) is under $100, half the price of one of the overpriced POS lifts.
That's an absolute given. ;)
-- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Canuckistani no less...
Canuckistani no less...
------------------------------------------------------------------------ And the plaid shirt was a good touch. Even though it didn't look flannel.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:21:42 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy wrote the following:
Y'mean "Canuckistani for a change", don'tcha?
Robatoy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com:
*snip*
To what angle?
Puckdropper
Horizontal, if neither she nor your wife objects.
On 18 Jul 2010 20:22:51 GMT, Puckdropper wrote the following:
90 degrees, or parallel with the bed, of course.---------------------------------------------------------- Please return Stewardess to her original upright position. --------------------------------------
I find myself in the midst of a herd of smartypants. I like that.
On Thu 15 Jul 2010 08:12:25p, " snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com" wrote in news:a13569d8-7ba0-497f-8e3f- snipped-for-privacy@z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com:
I haven't seen anyone mention Router Raizer yet, so I'll chime in with that. My router table is a 1 inch thick piece of table top from a dead computer desk (the top was the only part of that desk that wasn't junk), a Hitachi M12V, clamped to a WorkMate 550 and a homemade wood fence. They had a sale at a woodworking show some years back and I decided it was cheap enough, and the demo was good enough, to make it look like a good gamble. About 70 bucks American, I think I paid.
I like it. There's a crank you have to keep handy and a little magnetic cap for the crank hole, but so far that hasn't been a bother.
Then again, maybe I like it because it was so cheap and fits right in with the whole Mickey Mouse arrangement for the router table. :-) I know for sure it's a whole lot more fun than messing with the default height adjustment, and just as accurate.
The Bench Dog is an excellent lift. But condiser that for the price of a good lift you can buy a good router with the lift built in and you end up with another router. I had a large Bosch hanging under my table for about
20 years and replaced it with a Triton router about 7 years ago, it has a built in lift and works well with the Bench Dog table.
Question about lifting the router while in the table. How easy/accurate is it to operate? I'm guessing, maybe wrongly, that you have to operate the lift with your hands under the table. I'm just wondering how convenient operating the Triton router lift is compared to one of the above table adjustments. Obviously, there is a price difference between the two, but that's not the question I'm asking.
See photo in Amazon listing.
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The Triton router adjusts from above the table, apparently. I've never used one, so...
Bottom of the page:
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just accurately, but damned fine machinery to boot.
Shapers can run 1/2" router bits.... in fact, they do so quite well. A set of cutters, the insert kind, don't have to cost an arm and a leg either. One nice thing is the induction motor of a shaper. quiet and constant speed. Usually pretty nice fence (two piece) dust collection, and a nice sturdy table. This looks like a lot of machine:
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you are starting from scratch with say only a router table (need to buy a router and a lift), one comment above jumps out and grabs you.
"One nice thing is the induction motor of a shaper. quiet and constant speed."
Not only is the above shaper package competitively priced, but an induction motor is a major bonus, IMHO.
Lew
I do not recomment any Grizzly machinery. I have had lotsa problems with a Grizzly machine (GO454). Don't get me started on that. A used machine made in the USA would be about the same cost and 10 times better.
I do, however, use Grizzly shaper cutters, and they seem to cost about the same or less than some router bits I have seen. There are some high-dollar brands of shaper cutters that I really can't afford, being a small shop. (I know two people with large shops and have an inventory of cutters that would cost more than my GMC pickup)
Shaper cutters go a lot longer before getting dull, IMHO.
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:33:42 -0500, "woodstuff" wrote the following:
And the other 99% of us have owned several Griz machines and haven't had a lick of trouble with -any- of them. YMMV.
-- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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