Router Table Fence

Adie

Well done! It took me several attempts (and some help from our Administrator friends) to get my picture sorted out so I know it's not quite as simple as some of these guys try to make out. (If I admit I was an IT manager for 30 years do you think it might affect my street cred?) I hit the same problem with getting the pictures to fit, just one scroll bar at the end of the post does seem a bit inadequate but - we are talking about amateurs (you and me and a few others) trying to marry together two technologies (Photobucket or whatever and this forum) so perhaps we should just gasp in amazement that it works at all!

A question, a comment and a request:

On the first picture there are several pencil lines - are they of significance in using the fence or are they just relics of the original marking out? I can guess that the vertical lines might mark the edge of the cutter, what's the horizontal one for?

I think there's something odd about me (slight pause whilst we allow the guffaws to die down) but I find the back views of anything much more interesting than the front; don't take this the wrong way but the front is for show, the back shows how things work.

And the request - could you post a picture showing more detail of how the vacuum pipe attaches to the fence. I need (well, like) to upgrade the extraction on my table and any ideas will be useful.

Take care

Hello Jim,

Had a look at the link. I like the idea of the sliding subfence. I usually just cramp on a bit of MDF !

Eric,
The extraction in the diagram is more or less the same as my one. Only I just made mine up as I went along! The pencil marks (should have cleaned the thing) are old datum marks from different jobs. I think the horazontal one had to do with a raised sub fence.

Adie

Don't (unless you need to) (or want to) rub off the pencil lines. My kit has "temporary" marks all over it - it shows it's been used. It's a little bit like the back of things, they show how it all works. I like to think of such marks as showing the history of a piece.

(A while back I was asked how to remove the marks from the surface of a writing slope. I suggested ways but added that the marks showed the slope had been used - it's history - I think the lady was touched by the thought.)