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Yarp. I cut a rectangular 6mm sheet of aluminium out with bevelled corners. I then traced it onto 15mm MDF. I then routed out the template by 6mm to drop it into. I then took the router and marked the outline and routed the rest out through.
Then centred the router and marked centrehole. Then took the piece to an engineers and they put a 3 inch hole in it and put a lip on it, 3mm I think. Then got a piece of 3mm ali, cut it to match with a jigsaw and dropped that in there with a smaller pre drilled collet hole in it.
Ordered a load of countersunk Stainless Machine screws off Ebay, drilled and countersunk them and attached the three plates, including bolting up the router.
Then made up supports and a table for the MDF out of CLS 2 x 4's with a mitred pine strip binding on the table.
I operate it by clamping the on trigger and plugging it in. Setting the height is a bit of a PITA to be fair as I never made a winder for it. But it's OK as you can take the weight of the router from underneath, push the depth stop spring back by pushing up the router and adjust the height by screwing the fine depth movement, measure and then lock in place.
I only made it to make 30 ornamental curved roof trusses from a template. I figure one day I will have a go at a guitar body. BUt it has seen some use making architraves and stuff, as it's easy to clamp up a guide timber. Still have to take it in depth stages though which is a bit of a pain.
And if you force anything it spits it out at you, complete with shards of timber, travelling at 3000 miles per hour, heading straight for your eyes.
The idea was that it was to be collapsible, so the frame is joined with 10mm bolts and those shark tooth Fender bolt thingies that hammer into the wood.
If you want to use the router overhead, you can just undo the four screws on the plate and use it with the plate on, but I can't be arsed, need a better router really. It does have soft start though. I wear ear defenders, everything is less scary with ear defenders on.
I think it's all in the router plate, mine cost about 25 quid including the engineering, still cheaper than buying one that doesn't match your router anyway.
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The DeWaltD26204K is also worth a look for a bit extra money. I have a D26200 fixed base only version.and am very happy with it. Between that and a 1/2 Makita i can tackle most things
That's the one I'm looking at now.