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Thread: Lous Router Table Plans
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7th March 2007, 07:42 PM #31
Thx Al ...................I'll give her a crack next time I post the Pic
Regards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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7th March 2007, 10:57 PM #32
N heres the Mk1
Gidday
Well heres my first prototype. Any suggestions feedback really appreciated. See if you can guess where the Fence adjuster comes from
REgards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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7th March 2007, 11:23 PM #33
have a look at the plans now site as they have a few router table plans. cost $ to buy but you can get design ideas from them. one site i was on said that you should have dust extraction only from the side as if it comes from the bottom it can stuff up the router.
lots of designs i saw had drawers for router bits. shut drawer no dust at all.
there are lots of picture out there to get idea from.
anyway bloody brilliant drawings ya have done.
(im cutting up a old kitchen bench to make mine)
( it has a 38mm laminex top and the cupboard underneath)
cheers philFirst On Race Day
And the first brock trophy goes to...............
and we got no "2" as well
A FORD driver.
ironic isnt it?
and if ya cant win on ya own merit punt em off!!!
holden cheater team!!!!!
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7th March 2007, 11:43 PM #34Senior Member
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Placing models in google earth
Al
To position your chimney at home you need to know your lat long.
Then
Open the xxx.kmz file that you used to load your model into google earth with winzip.
Open the file "doc.kml" with notepad. Something similar to that shown below will be displayed. Alter the lines
<longitude>152.705530</longitude>
<latitude>-27.622110</latitude>
to display your current lat, long
alter the line
<heading>150.0</heading>
to turn the model's heading
save and close the file and reopen in google earth.
rename the zip file to kmz.
I have attached a zip file that i made of an F-111 on the end of the strip at Amberley as an example. Remove the .zip extension to open in GE.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<kml xmlns='http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1'>
<Placemark>
<name>f_111</name>
<description><![CDATA[Created with <a href="http://sketchup.google.com">Google SketchUp</a>]]></description>
<DocumentSource>SketchUp</DocumentSource>
<Style id='default'>
</Style>
<Model>
<altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode>
<Location>
<longitude>152.705530</longitude>
<latitude>-27.622110</latitude>
<altitude>0.000000000000</altitude>
</Location>
<Orientation>
<heading>150.0</heading>
<tilt>0</tilt>
<roll>0</roll>
</Orientation>
<Scale>
<x>1.0</x>
<y>1.0</y>
<z>1.0</z>
</Scale>
<Link>
<href>models/f_111.dae</href>
</Link>
</Model>
</Placemark>
</kml>
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8th March 2007, 09:53 AM #35
G'day NewLou,
Thanks, you go into more detail for a cutting list than I do, strewth. I just have a pad with sketches all over the joint with dimensions marked.
On your screw for adjusting the fence (I'll try and make this elgible to understand) it doesn't look like it allows for much movement with the part of the bed (dark blue) which is fastened to a piece of MDF, of which the screw is attached to.
Would it be better to have the screw fastened to the table top and having the main body of the bed/fence running in a track or similar? And then maybe a micro adjuster working in place of where the current screw is?
Not a critisim on your part at all, just wondering if all this might then give you more accessibility for larger pieces of stock that you may end up running through the table.
But then, maybe I'm missing something which I can't see or I'm just missing something - this happens a lot.
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8th March 2007, 10:30 AM #36
Hey Waldo
GReat ideas!....................
You can't see in the Pics I posted but the Fence will be fully adjustable.
N YUP I'm as we speak working on a Micro Adjustment System. This is Just the design concept. HAndy feedback like you've just given helps with the refinement stage.
The Mk2 will hopefully look more refined. Once Finished I'll Do a few Zooms n closeups of how everything works.
Am hoping you'll post a few PICS of your own design ideas!
REgards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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8th March 2007, 12:16 PM #37
G'day NewLou,
You're giving me plenty of ideas. no problem there.
Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have my cabinet finished and can clear some room to start thinking about the router table, there'll be some pics of the table in Ketchup v6 if it doesn't look like a dogs breakfast.
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8th March 2007, 03:06 PM #38
OK
Heres the Final Draft of my first Router Table Plan ...................... Not sure if I should put a mitre track in or not what are peoples experience with this?
Does a mitre sled come in handy or is the track just another thing to get in the road? n catch stock?
REgards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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8th March 2007, 03:17 PM #39
G'day NewLou,
I'd think a track with a mitre sled is a necessity.
Looking at you plans there I notice the fence falls full depth to the table. Wouldn't that limit how far the top bed can move along its track on the bottom bed? Or have I read it wrong, and your diagram is showing the limit to how far the top bed can travel back on its tracks along the bottom bed?
Another thing I've been wondering. The access for changing the router bits, which is enclosed in its space to fit a 4" house for the dusty. Will this be a tight fit for changing bits? Having seen Groggy's table I've been toying with the idea of also incorporating the router table so that it's hinged at one end, so that you just need to flip it open to easily access changing the bits.
Keep it coming, other than the work I've got on right now (not shed related) it's keeping my brain ticking in all sorts of places.
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8th March 2007, 05:02 PM #40Just Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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8th March 2007, 05:35 PM #41
G'day NewLou,
Looks good to me, but then I'm a boofhead at some things, so what do I know.
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8th March 2007, 07:34 PM #42
I've found a mitre-sled can come in handy for some applications, but for me they're far and few between.
If I ever build my own router table I won't be putting the track in the table where, as you said, it can catch stock. Instead I'll be running lengths along the top of each fence and building the sled to suit. (Idea pinched from the Triton's TS fence. ) The sled won't run from one track to t'other, of course, but it doesn't need to... only gotta push the piece past the router bit.
I reckon that having the track along the top of the fence may come in handy for mounting pressure fingers and the like, too.
- Andy Mc
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14th March 2007, 02:52 PM #43
G'day NewLou,
Any more developments on the router? I'm flying up to Brissy this weekend to finally pick up my Hitatchi router and a bunch of other stuff, so I'm getting closer to formulating my own table and it's always a great thing to be able to see how others do may do something differently which you mightn't have thought of etc.
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14th March 2007, 08:24 PM #44
Hey Waldo!
Yer I got a few more ideas in the pipeline but all in the development stage (Mostly to do with dust extraction).
Other than a few minor tweaks here n there N perhaps the addition of an outfeed extension table you've pretty much seen the 'guts' of how I'm going about it.
I've decided not to put a miter guide in the tabletop N might add a few shelves. Be great to see a few posts of some of your ideas!
Regards LouJust Do The Best You Can With What You HAve At The Time
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14th March 2007, 11:01 PM #45
G'day NEwlOu,
No problems, let me get my cabinet out of the way and some time to stuff around with Ketchup and we may see some plans.