Use my workbench as my router table?

[UTMonkey]

Hi All,

I have completed the lift part of my router project and I am ready to fix it to a plate and then its ready for the table.

I do have a worktop ready to accept the router but given the size of my shed I do wonder if I could perhaps mount it onto my workbench and use a blanking plate when not used.

What do you recommend, has anyone faced the same dilemma?

Thanks in advance

Mark

 

[carlb40]

Hi Mark

As space is at a premium, how about the worktop as a fold up/ down type. Either on your bench or on a wall?

 

[Rob Platt]

put one in a table saw
all the best
rob

 

[adzeman]

I built one as a T table fits into the vice as shown to me by Oryxdesign which has served me well. Just adapted it with a router lift last week. Easy to put away when not in use.

Cheers

 

[UTMonkey]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Collapsible it is, Mike, can you describe your design?

 

[carlb40]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Collapsible it is, Mike, can you describe your design?

It's probably like the type some of us fit into the extended rails on the axi ts200.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&sa ... x=90&ty=81

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&sa ... 162&ty=103

 

[adzeman]

Collapsible it is, Mike, can you describe your design?

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-68g9 ... +table.JPG

I will be adding a dust collector similar to the one I did last year for the R.A.S. (a Venturi)

 

[UTMonkey]

Blimey, that looks sturdy, thanks for sharing.

 

[Sheffield Tony]

I mostly use hand tools, but do have a small router. I found it just fitted between the fully open jaws of my B&D workmate, so I cut a suitably sized piece of MDF, with a square hole in the middle to accept the router on a bit of 1/8" aluminium plate I had to hand. Two blocks of 2x4 on the underside alow the workmate to grip it. Crude but working router table, that I can easily set up outside if needed.