James Hart
01-22-2008, 2:13 PM
Bought my dad a PC690 during Amazons great sale. I'm trying to install it into the Craftsman router table he has. No good deed goes unpunished. The table is really not the type where I can see successfully drilling and countersinking new holes.
He's 86 and lives 1,500 miles from me. I'm trying to send him something he can just screw in.
I've cut a 1/2" thick piece of phenolic to perfectly match the Craftsman base plate. Drilled and countersunk for the PC 690. Drilled to match the Craftsman holes in the table. Drilled an opening in the center.
Question- He'll need to screw this to the PC, that's the easy part. Then he'll need to screw it all to the bottom of the table. I'm thinking of countersinking the nuts onto the underside of the phenolic and epoxying them in place. Thought of tapping the phenolic, but I have no idea if that's do-able or if it will be strong enough to hold.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
He's 86 and lives 1,500 miles from me. I'm trying to send him something he can just screw in.
I've cut a 1/2" thick piece of phenolic to perfectly match the Craftsman base plate. Drilled and countersunk for the PC 690. Drilled to match the Craftsman holes in the table. Drilled an opening in the center.
Question- He'll need to screw this to the PC, that's the easy part. Then he'll need to screw it all to the bottom of the table. I'm thinking of countersinking the nuts onto the underside of the phenolic and epoxying them in place. Thought of tapping the phenolic, but I have no idea if that's do-able or if it will be strong enough to hold.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim