Hi All,
For the last few years I've been piecemealing together a router table. Really for no particular reason than I want one and I seem to be a tool junkie. But I'm not rich so I just bought various pieces along the way. So I'm trying to decide what next best steps are. I can go 1 of two ways, dedicated table or add to tablesaw. I have the parts to do either. Below is what I have so far.

First I bought a used Rt1000 router table (basically for all the bits that came with it). The Rt1000 is basically a norm abrams style table. The top was hollow,dipped (not sure the word). I went about laminating another and that didn't go so well.

Sometime in the last few years I also picked up a 10" wide x 27"l table saw extension wing, because I found it dirt cheap (was going to use as a lapping plate).

A few months ago I bought a Jessem Rout r 2 lift for no particular reason other than I wanted to treat myself and eventually build a table.

I recently just picked up a used / new in box peachtree cast iron router wing extension.

So now I have the Rt1000 cabinet / fence. The Peachtree cast iron router extension wing, and the odd plain table saw extension wing.

I currently have a 52" Unisaw.

I could go 1 of two ways. My thinking as follows

1) Put the peachtree cast iron router table extension wing, together with the plain tablesaw extension wing (in front of peachtree wing) and slap that whole thing on top of the RT1000 cabinet. This gives me a top that is approx 27" wide X 25" deep. The plain table saw extension wing would go in front of the peachtree miter slot. This seems like the best potential option, minus the fact the the RT1000 cabinet / fence was designed to suck dust through the fence and down into the cabinet, through a hole in the top of the table. Not sure how I could replicate that with the cast iron tops. I guess just build a new fence that sucks dust through the fence and out and use a separate hose for dust that falls into cabinet. The other issue is how to attach these cast iron tops to the cabinet base?

2) Add the peachtree wing (and possibly the odd plain table saw wing) to the table saw. Since I have the 48" extension table on the Unisaw. I think I could really only add this to the left side of the blade as I'm not sure how I'd rig it up to the extension table which is 3/4" melamine. If I add to the left of blade then I don't have much real estate in front of router bit.

Ideally I'd like to figure out a way to rig this up to the saw only for the space savings. Officially I have / can make space for the stand alone router table. I just get a little claustrophobic at times, which I feel like hinders my enjoyment and I am trying to make more working space. Some pluses for tablesaw is 1) space savings. 2) I'm sure I could rig up a auxillary fence onto my unifence. This allows me to have a fence that is parallel to router miter slots and also allows me to use the Unifence scale. Downsides are 1) dust collection - I feel like whatever I do DC just isn't going to be great. 2) I have to potentially change tablesaw or router fence settings in middle of a project since they would share a fence. 3) Even if I add to left side of blade I have to rig up some support for the router wing and still have a smaller top.

So with all that jumbled mess said

1) dedicated table or 2) add to saw?

2B if I add to saw, How do I incorporate into saw without changing foot print, building a auxillery support or losing 48" extension table?

Thank you
Michael