Portable table saw/ router table combo
builderhayes
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I’ve been surfing the net for the past two hours looking for a portable table saw and router table combo. Rousseau seems to be on the right track with their table saw dolly for Makita saws, but there’s no router insert. I really like the Jessem set up, but I’d like to minimize the equipment I lug around. Anyone out there have any suggestions?
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I was looking for the same thing not to long ago. It seemed to me that the inserts are made for a 27" table. My bosch is something like 22" Saw one on Amazon made by Bench Dog but won't fit the bosch. .
Edited 4/28/2007 3:35 pm ET by curley
The Ryobi portable TS used to be made that way - don't know if they still are or not.
My mewmory is that the TS was 3000 or 3100 and the router model # was 6000 or 6100
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Craftsman carries that saw now though I looked at it and thought that it would be PITA to change around too much so I truck a makita TS and a bosch router table and some sawhorses
Edited 4/28/2007 7:17 pm ET by restorationday
I wasn't necessarily recommending it, though at one point in time I lusted after it. I was just providing infornmation.That Sears carries it is not surprising. Ryobi makes most of their stuff now. the saw was the first on the market of the decent 10" portable tablesaws, but from all I have heard and read, it is tempermental as far as alignments goes. As a one man saw fine, but not to be handed off to a crew....
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"One of the detachable tables includes an aperature for mounting a router eliminating the need for a separate router table."
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I have the Makita and Rousseau table. Great rig. It would be easy to hang a router on it. Just haven't gotten to it yet. Rockler sells a good switch box for the router. $25
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Edited 4/28/2007 8:25 pm ET by oldfred
I just mounted a router on my rouseau table. But I'm pretty sure I have sen an actual router attachment made by rouseau... I could be wrong though.
I just got 3 screws that are the same thread size and count as the screws holding the plate on the router only about 3/4" longer, then I used the plate as a template to drill 3 holes in the table. then I countersunk the holes, screwed the router body up beneath the table and used my widest router bit to "drill" a hole throught the table surface. Voila! Instant router table.
I was using the standard p.c. 6900 router then, so I had a few extra router bodies. I would often just leave a body attached to the table and just insert the router motor into it when I needed it.