The Rolling Router Table
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June/July 1996
By David Mukamal Camp
If you've been really lucky, the base plate should fit down in the recess and be flush with the tabletop. I've never been that lucky, so I put layers of masking tape on the lip to shim the base plate up into place.
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Attach the melamine to the router-table-to-be with screws driven up through the frame. The best approach is to turn the whole arrangement upside down onto the melamine and let gravity help.
Hooking Up the Juice
For the wiring of my router table, I needed two electrical boxes, a duplex outlet, a light switch, Some 12/3 romex wire, and an old extension cord. I guess the fact that I actually had all these items around would indicate that perhaps I am a bit of a pack rat, after all. The extension cord had been chewed on by the cats, rendering it unsafe for too much extending. I salvaged eight feet between the chewed portion and the three-prong plug and wired that to the light switch in the first box. From there I ran the romex through the slats and around the rim to the second box, where I wired the duplex outlet.
In use, I lock the router trigger on and plug it into the duplex (after all adjustments have been made, of course). I plug in the tail from that old extension cord and use the light switch to turn the router on and off. I drove a nail into the spool next to the duplex box to hang the collet wrench from. Having it there makes it a simple matter to remember to unplug the router before I change bits.
So now I'm just left with those four semicircular pieces of wood I cut off the spool when I squared it up. They'll burn nicely in my wood stove, but first I wonder if I could pull out any of those nails ...
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