Router table from 510 main table

[Ed in Tampa]

I had some film left in my camera (yeah still use film camera) so I took some pictures of the router table made from a 510 main table and 510 fence. Dusty has taught me to be frugal and never let a upgraded part not be put to good use.
In picture one is this is the table with a home made insert

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In this picture you can see where I ground out the underside of the table to provide a location to mount my router.

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Picture with my Hitachi router mounted

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Table and adjustable legs ready to be used

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My dust collection and adjustable jig fitted to my old 510 fence so it can be used as a router table fence.

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[JPG40504]

Those bench legs are NOW not so interesting! What a difference a closeup makes. They looked like good looking wooden furniture design in shop rearrangement thread!

[dusty]

I had some film left in my camera (yeah still use film camera) so I took some pictures of the router table made from a 510 main table and 510 fence. Dusty has taught me to be frugal and never let a upgraded part not be put to good use.
In picture one is this is the table with a home made insert

4320

In this picture you can see where I ground out the underside of the table to provide a location to mount my router.

4321

Picture with my Hitachi router mounted

4322

Table and adjustable legs ready to be used

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My dust collection and adjustable jig fitted to my old 510 fence so it can be used as a router table fence.

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All right, Ed. Good Job. I made copies of those photos so that I can refer back to them if I need. I like your dust collecting router fence, too.

Now, if Shopsmith would just pickup on these ideas and sorta redesign their Main Table to become a multifunction table. Wouldn't that be great.

You need to sit down with all that "junk" you have collected and look through it. You probably have several hundreds of dollars laying around waiting to be incorporated into a project.

The parts that I have that really surprise me are still are the front and rear rails from the upgraded tables. It just seems like there has got to be a project for those. I keep moving them around but I'll NOT discard them.

[JPG40504]

ED! How did you get from film camera prints to .jpgfiles? scanner?

[Ed in Tampa]

ED! How did you get from film camera prints to .jpgfiles? scanner?

Plopped them on my officjet all in one printer, scanner, copier and clicked on my pictures and clicked get pictures from scanner. Microsoft did the rest of the work for me.
It did ask me if I wanted them as jpeg files and I said yes. After I got them loaded I had to go back and double click on each one with opened Microsofts
windows picture and fax viewer. I then clicked on the edit function which opened Ms Paint I then clicked on Image and then clicked attributes each picture had an original attribute of being 926x608 so I changed the attribute to 800x600 and saved the picture. I then loaded them to the forum.

[Ed in Tampa]

All right, Ed. Good Job. I made copies of those photos so that I can refer back to them if I need. I like your dust collecting router fence, too.

Now, if Shopsmith would just pickup on these ideas and sorta redesign their Main Table to become a multifunction table. Wouldn't that be great.

You need to sit down with all that "junk" you have collected and look through it. You probably have several hundreds of dollars laying around waiting to be incorporated into a project.

The parts that I have that really surprise me are still are the front and rear rails from the upgraded tables. It just seems like there has got to be a project for those. I keep moving them around but I'll NOT discard them.


Dusty as soon as I come up with some cash I going to order some 520 main table rails to mount on my home made router table. Then it will slip right on to the SS for an even more solid support. Then I will have more 510 fence rails lying around. So come up with a good use for them quick. I'm pondering using them with my table hanging setup to hold all the tables when I'm not using them.

[charlese]

Wow, Ed! Nifty recycling job!

[nuhobby]

I had some film left in my camera (yeah still use film camera) so I took some pictures of the router table made from a 510 main table and 510 fence. Dusty has taught me to be frugal and never let a upgraded part not be put to good use.


Very nice, Ed! I've actually seen you mention this rig before so I was looking forward to a picture.