johnelliott
Established Member
Anyone else have one of these? I bought one today, spent several hours assembling and setting up, only to find that there are several problems with it. It's made in Taiwan, BTW.
The design is OK, it's the execution that's the problem. The sliding table needs a good hard push and yet still doesn't travel in a perfectly straight line, the two parts of the fence (infeed and outfeed) go out of parallel when they are tightened down, and the router clamping system distorts the base of the router sufficiently to make the router very difficult to move on its plunge bars. I will go and mess with it some more this evening, but I anticipate taking it back tomorrow.
Trouble is, I need a router table with a sliding table because I cut tongues on end grain a lot, and the timber needs to be firmly held while traversing the cutter. I doubt a tenoning jig would be accurate enough
John
The design is OK, it's the execution that's the problem. The sliding table needs a good hard push and yet still doesn't travel in a perfectly straight line, the two parts of the fence (infeed and outfeed) go out of parallel when they are tightened down, and the router clamping system distorts the base of the router sufficiently to make the router very difficult to move on its plunge bars. I will go and mess with it some more this evening, but I anticipate taking it back tomorrow.
Trouble is, I need a router table with a sliding table because I cut tongues on end grain a lot, and the timber needs to be firmly held while traversing the cutter. I doubt a tenoning jig would be accurate enough
John