Just curious. Those of you who have mounted your routers in a side table on your Saw. Did you remove the right wing or leave it in place. Did you need to add a leg to the extension or did the saw stay stable with all that extra unsupported weight hanging out there.
I’m thinking about moving mine out of my router table and into the side extension. I’d be reinforcing the extension with 3/4″ mdf beneath. The 3/4″ melamine extension is bolted to two pieces of 2″ aluminum angle iron which is bolted to the fence rails. There is plenty of support for the PC 7518 router in the extension. But, it seems like this will make the saw top heavy to the right side and could cause it to tip. The saw is the highend Jet contractors saw with cast iron wings and Biesmeyer fence. There are a couple of pictures over in the Forest_Girls birthday thread.
Steve – in Northern California
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Hi Steve, conserving space, heh? I have a small router table on my Jet, can't address weight problems, as it is small, but it does get in the way periodically. Fortunately, it's on hinges and has quickly a removable leg-set.
Given the amount of cabinetry you seem to be anticipating, putting the router table further out would probably minimize the number of times you have to lower the router out of the way and remove the fence in order to cut sheet goods or whatever.
How easy is that saw to "tip"?
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Jamie, space is becoming a premium in the garage shop. Since I intend for this saw to become my personal workstation in the new shop I'm thinking that putting the router on the table would be the logical move. The new shop will get a real shaper.Steve - in Northern California
Let's do it again....."Form and Function are One" - Frank L. Wright
Dano, now you really got me thinkin. Why got to the right side when I can easily go to the left and get the balance back on track. Nice table... How do you like your Bies? I was cutting full sheets of Melamine and MDF yesterday and my new Commercial Bies made the job a snap.Steve - in Northern California
Steve,
Yeah, they're nice. Mines' the 50" (52" actual) commercial, haven't ever had to re-align it; wouldn't go any other way. I keep the slides pretty well waxed, if I need to "micro" adjust, I just blow on it, heheheh.
As to the router table, it's basically made from scrap and is easily detachable from the extension wing, used lag screws for "levelers", though I haven't detached in four years..........
Dano"Form and Function are One" - Frank L. Wright
Dano, Love your comment about blowing on it.. It takes a bit of fussing with the rails to get it dialed in but once you do, wow... I can zing it from one side to the other without any effort at all. I sure is nice to just look down and lock down knowing that the guage on the fence is right on the money. Steve - in Northern California
Here is my setup, just finished it two weeks ago after I got the new saw.Scott C. Frankland
Newfoundland Wood Worker
Nice legs! so to speak LOL. Seriously, though, I like the design of the support on that end. Do the knobs release the legs?
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Dave, you've got the Rosseau plate also I see. My PC 7518 is really easy to raise, lower and micro adjust so I have no need for a router raiser. Your setup looks like it would work well for me. Thanks for the pic.
Steve - in Northern California
Go ahead and do it -
I removed the right wing from my saw and used 3/4" shop grade
plywood, doubled, and put the router in the very end. Attach
the fence rails directly to the table board - I have a 50"
Jet fence. I built a small stand to support the end of the
saw on the right and use it to hold the fence, miter guage,
and the router fence plus the fence for my sliding table. All
I have to do is clamp the fence to the table board and oper the
blast gate. If I do not want to lower the bit for some reason-
like the rail or stile bit, I simply remove the router from the
board and hang on a hook that I've got under the saw, I put it
there for this reason, then cut my sheet goods or cross cut.
This saves me a lot of time in my shop. Give it a try - you'll
love it.
Robert
Steve,
Here's a pic of my set up, FWIW.
Dano
What the hell.....it didn't attach, I'll try again...
Edited 5/30/2002 10:40:16 AM ET by Danford C. Jennings
I mounted a 3 HP plunge router in my TS extension table, and built a home made fence for the router with a dust pickup. I have extensions on three sides of my TS as I run a lot of plywood, and work in the shop my myself. Sorry for the quality of the pics. Len
Nice Job Len, I was commenting in another thread about the extensions and the long Commercial Beismeyer fence being the cat's meow when cutting sheet stock. My outfeed table is 49 x 60. The right side table fills the gap between the wing and then end of the fence rails. The pics are posted over in the Forest Girls birthday thread, click on the link below to see the table.
http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/at.asp?webtag=tp-knots&at=%2Ftp%2Dknots%2Fgeneral%2Fdocs%2F5A0484BE%2D2997%2D4E73%2D973A%2D3AAA7414FDAF%2Fshop1%2Ejpg&frames=no
Steve - in Northern California
Edited 5/30/2002 1:26:58 PM ET by Steve Schefer
Edited 5/30/2002 1:31:39 PM ET by Steve Schefer
Nice looking shop Steve. It looks like you have the same problem that I do.... Your wife has no place to park her car?
Len
Wife ? Heck she was the first thing to go. Kept complaining about sawdust in the washing machine. I see no problem with it, kinda works like downey fabric freshener. Steve - in Northern California
Here's a pic of my setup. I built a cabinet under the extension table, not only do I save floor space by not having a separate router table, but I also get the storage of a router table.
I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out, one day I may even get around to laminating it to match the delta gray.
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