Paul Douglass
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I built myself a router table many years ago and have been quite happy with it in general. It has great dust collection, a good size actually the top is a little bigger than what I see on for sale type table tops and I could downsize mine a little. Good storage for router bits and router parts. the to is hinged a lifts up for adjusting the router up and down.
The downsides are, of course no lift, but can't afford one, the plate is one I made from a piece of aluminum plate I had and being ignorant I made it too big. Of course unless I keep it constantly waxed it makes gray coloring on my piece of wood I have to sand out. Because I made it too large I can't just replace it with a standard size one. I also cannot use insert on it to adjust the hole size.
I find I an using the router more and more so I want to upgrade the top and at a reasonable price. I'm looking at the Woodpecker plate. I'll make my own top again. So my question is are there any know problems with the Woodpecker plate. This is the one I am considering:
http://www.woodpeck.com/aluminsert.html
The downsides are, of course no lift, but can't afford one, the plate is one I made from a piece of aluminum plate I had and being ignorant I made it too big. Of course unless I keep it constantly waxed it makes gray coloring on my piece of wood I have to sand out. Because I made it too large I can't just replace it with a standard size one. I also cannot use insert on it to adjust the hole size.
I find I an using the router more and more so I want to upgrade the top and at a reasonable price. I'm looking at the Woodpecker plate. I'll make my own top again. So my question is are there any know problems with the Woodpecker plate. This is the one I am considering:
http://www.woodpeck.com/aluminsert.html