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Build a pin router?


daltone_

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Hi, was curious if I could get a suggestion or two - I've been wanting to construct a pin router for some time now. I've been weighing different approaches and I think I wanted to give it a shot with some aluminum extrusions & brackets as the frame/arm and what not to hold a 3HP Porter Cable router. I would probably want to be able to adjust the cutting height of the tool maybe with a component that would normally be used on a CNC but that I could just wire up to a simple switch to raise and lower the router (while obviously everything else would be done by moving the template & work by hand). Is it likely that this would be stable enough for routing operations?

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Veritas makes an arm that you can attach to any router table that you might consider.  I rather doubt that you'd be able to construct a solid router mount out of aluminum extrusions, though you could probably use it to create the arm portion.

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