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You can tell by the design that this beast was designed for industrial use though it fits nicely into a home shop. You can use it at the job site by putting it on a Workmate® but have a friend help you move it. The steel table and guide tubes make for one "heavy" duty machine. It is designed to work with some Porter Cable and Bosch routers.
This machine is best used for cross routing straight lines, blind dados or as an overhead router table. It has two different bearing systems. One is for movement of the carriage on the guide rails. This makes the router feel weightless on the carriage. The second system is used to allow the router to move up and down vertically on the material. This "float" ensures constant depth dados on warp, twisted or bowed material.
Table; The table is all steel with a powder coated finish. It has openings for clamps, track systems and screw holes for mounting a wood table top. Tracking system; Guide Tubes; The guide tubes are 1/8" wall with a nickel chrome plated finish. Guide Tube Brackets; Formed steel with a powder coated finish. Bolt to table. Allow the guide tubes to be rotated or replaced. Bearings; Eight sealed bearings are mounted to the corners of the carriage for smooth travel and long wear. Carriage; The steel carriage allows the router insert plate to be replaced with a saw insert plate in seconds. The carriage has two locks that secure it in place for rip cuts.
Floating Router Insert; This steel insert uses 6 sealed bearings to allow a router to move up and down on a work surface. When the router is lowered on a material surface, it rides on a UHMW plastic plate to prevent scratches. The router follows the bowing and twisting in a work surface to provide a constant depth even on irregular material.
Capability: 32" cross dado, Unlimited rip dado, 2+11/16" drop of router.
A Saw insert plate is used to change out the router insert in the carriage. This changes your router table into a long throw dual arm saw table.
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