Decent collapsible router table?

[YorkshireMartin]

I keep finding myself in need of a router table.

Is there anything that you can get that would be considered portable/storable, other than the festool cms thing which I think adds up to a £1,000 all told. lol

Seen the UJK product which looks great, but it's just too big and wont collapse down. I need to be able to store this away when not in use as I'm completely out of space. I have a full size router I wish to mount, so it would need to be sturdy.

Would appreciate any pointers as I'm drawing a blank. Might end up making one if I can't find anything I guess.

Thanks guys

 

[marcros]

Mount a plate on the router and clamp the router in your bench vice, upside down.

 

[Roughcut]

Axminster do sell a folding router table, although I can't vouch if it's any good:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-fo ... kit-717613

 

[YorkshireMartin]

Axminster do sell a folding router table, although I can't vouch if it's any good:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-fo ... kit-717613

Don't know how I missed that one! Cheers, I'll look into it.

 

[YorkshireMartin]

Mount a plate on the router and clamp the router in your bench vice, upside down.

Would MDF do it do you think?

 

[ColeyS1]

Black and decker workmate?

Coley

 

[MikeJhn]

When it comes down to it, in the end the router table collapsed or not will be the depth of the router mounted in it, by the table width and length, so it will end up being this sort of bulk: http://www.axminster.co.uk/ujk-technolo ... 6/?video=0 may as well except it and buy a sturdy one.

Mike

 

[custard]

I keep finding myself in need of a router table.

Is there anything that you can get that would be considered portable/storable, other than the festool cms thing which I think adds up to a £1,000 all told. lol

Seen the UJK product which looks great, but it's just too big and wont collapse down. I need to be able to store this away when not in use as I'm completely out of space. I have a full size router I wish to mount, so it would need to be sturdy.

Would appreciate any pointers as I'm drawing a blank. Might end up making one if I can't find anything I guess.

Thanks guys

Most workshops I've worked in have had a couple of spindle moulders and router tables permanently set up. But craftsmen are notorious for hanging a, "Set Up For Use, Do Not Disturb" sign on all of them! Consequently most guys will have a small sheet of 12 or 15mm MDF with a heavy hardwood lipping to add a bit of stiffness. It'll be about 300mm wide by about 500mm long, with a 30mm hole cut out for router bits and holes set uo for machine screws to go through and secure a router slung underneath. When you need a router table you cantilever it off the edge of your bench with a couple of F Cramps and you're in business. That and a simple, one piece fence is all you need for 90% of router jobs.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But it'll get the job done in almost every case, it's made from scrap, and it takes up very little room under your bench. For even smaller jobs you can just fasten the router upside down in a vice and work right off the router's base plate, using the edging guide as a fence if necessary. I'll often do this (with a couple of small push sticks) for small workpieces that are tricky to secure otherwise.

Good luck!

 

[YorkshireMartin]

I'm swinging between making my own and buying one at the moment. If I make one I'll want it to attach to the MFT and I think I've found a way to do that but it involves some fiddling.

The table you describe, custard, is very similar to what I've done with the bandsaw table I think, MDF framed with hardwood. It works, no doubt.

I'll have a ponder, thanks everyone.