Router table question

[Chippygeoff]

I am quite new to routing but used them quite a lot when I was on the tools a few years back, mainly hand held for hinges, rebates etc. I have just bought from Axminster one of their UJK compact router tables, its exactly what I want. To cut a long story short several parts were missing and after several phone calls some of the missing parts will be here tomorrow while others are going to take a little longer. They are ordering a new fence assemble. What surprised me was that there was no mention on the instructions and I could not see any on the diagram. I am on about spacers. the rods that go behind the outfeed fence when using the router table as a jointer. I should be able to adjust the outfeed side of the fence by 2-3mm I would have thought so that the fence supports the wood as it passes the cutter. I hope I haveexplained this okay. The fence is a beautiful piece of kit and there is provision for spacers behind the MDF sub fence. Any ideas anyone if Axy fail to come up with something.

 

[Eric The Viking]

The 'traditional' American method is a piece of Formica stuck to the outfeed fence with double-sided tape. You can also get plastic packers in 1mm increments from Screwfix, Toolstation and the rest. I expect they're quite approximate, but I use them on the router table and they work well (but mine has a threaded adjustor for the two sides of the fence).

Otherwise pieces of cornflakes packet? It's not a precise art after all, and if you're intending to do what I did - use it as a planer with a tall 1/2" cutter - you can't take deep passes anyway and still hope to get a decent finish. The shallower the better really.

Aren't the cardboard sleeves for Rizla papers supposed to be 10 thou (papers themselves being 1 thou) or have I remembered that wrong?

E.

 

[barkwindjammer]

A pack of playing cards- the workshop 'universal shimming kit' 8)