Sat, May 28, 2005, 6:17pm (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@toast.net (CNT) A simple search in google's
Ah, someone that's googled. But, you would probably have been more ahead if you'd just done a regular google. However.
I'm not back, but saw this thread while posting for some input. I've been told I think differently from most other people. Possibly. I do know I get somewhat puzzled when I read posts like this. Unless you're planning on making plans, and selling them, I wouldn't worry so much about it if I was you. Just make something that satisfies your wants, and needs, and esthetically pleases you.
My router table, about the Mk III model, is basic. The original was put together out of scrap 2X4s, and a chunk of plywood for the top, put together mostly with glue (Titebond II - gotta get some stock in that company), maybe a nail or two, and bolts to bolt the whole thing down. That didn't meet my needs, so was torn apart - as much as possible, Titebond really holds - and as much as I could salvage, plus some more scrap wood, made the second version. Repeat, for the next version. Can't recall if I redid it again, or not. Still basically the same. The top has about a 2" hole where the bit goes thru. I took apart an earlier router, and absolutely no sawdust in it. I think you'd have to have a pretty severe slant of the top, to have the chips/sawdust slide off on it's own,. It just pushes out of the way on mine, by the piece being worked, and I brush it off with a wide paint brush later. If I ever need a fence on it, I'll just clamp a piece of 2X2, or 2X4, on. It does exactly what I want, and need, it to do, and I really don't care what anyone thinks of it's looks. If my needs for it ever change, I will have no hesitation into remodeling it again, or tossing it, and making another - this one might have around $2-2.50 in it - for the bolts.
JOAT Failure is ALWAYS an option.
- JOAT