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Thread: Router Lift Advice Needed

  1. #1
    Rob Will Guest

    Router Lift Advice Needed

    My employee "WC" will make me boss of the week tomorrow if I can hook him up with the best way to put a router under his 50" UniSaw table. (Biesemeyer fence) He does not have the router yet so you can design this from scratch.

    Any router and lift suggestions or websites that I can pass on?

    Thanks,
    Rob

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Sep 2003
    Location
    TX Hill Country
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    Porter Cable 7518 and Jessem Mast-R-Lift.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Location
    Houston, Texas
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    Pick your router that will fit a woodpeck lift.
    Good, Fast, Cheap--Pick two.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Nov 2003
    Location
    Cave Creek, AZ - near Phoenix
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    Woodpeckers, previously mentioned, offers numerous excellent choices:

    www.woodpeck.com
    Dave Falkenstein aka Daviddubya
    Cave Creek, AZ

  5. #5
    Budget?

    $150--$500?

    Bill

  6. #6
    Milwaukees don't need a lift.
    mount it in the table and raise it from the top.
    I got my bench dog too early.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    Mission Viejo, CA
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    271

    Routerlift

    Woodpecker.com has a new router lift called the "QuickLift". I have one and it works like a champ. I also have their PRL with a PC7518. It also works great, but the raising and lowering is not as easy. Same essentials in both lifts but the QuickLift is more responsive. Woodpeckers has a weekly e-mail of specials. This week the special is QuickLifts.

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    A – Porter Cable 690/890, Bosch 1617/1618, DeWalt 618<O:P>
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  8. #8
    Rob Will Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Fields
    Budget?
    $150--$500?
    Bill
    How about $300?

    Rob

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    Rob Will Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by John Keane
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    A – Porter Cable 690/890, Bosch 1617/1618, DeWalt 618<O:P>
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    Mr. Moderator; I mean to be helpful not overstep my bounds.</O:P>
    Very helpful indeed.
    I think we have a PC 690 that came with the X5 Unisaw deal.
    Thanks,
    Rob

  10. #10

    Another option...

    I have had a JessEm Mast-R-Lift for several years now and it was OK until I got my hands on my Jointech SmartLift last year. Digital display to show how high the bit is in thousandths of an inch or non-digital and use the analog dial. At the shows, they sell the digital for $400 and the non-digital for $270.

    They are shipping the new ones with an automatic locking mechanism.

    My two cents...
    Residing comfortably in the beautiful State of Confusion...
    -Saul

  11. #11
    And another way:


    There are many pages with step by step for this installation.

    http://www.woodshopdemos.com/ss-p3-13.htm
    John Lucas
    woodshopdemos

  12. #12
    Hey Saul, How about a full review of the SmartLift. The Jessem and Woodpeck lifts get mentioned a lot, but nobody has much first hand knowledge about the SmartLift.

    How was installation, adjustment, quality, ease of use. How is it better than the Mast-R-Lift? Is the digital actually useful, or more of a gimmick, etc. ?



    Quote Originally Posted by Saul Harris
    I have had a JessEm Mast-R-Lift for several years now and it was OK until I got my hands on my Jointech SmartLift last year. Digital display to show how high the bit is in thousandths of an inch or non-digital and use the analog dial.

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    I have the big Milwaukee and love it. No separate lift is required. It is mounted to the end of the the table on my PM66. One thing to consider if you do go this route it do NOT mount the router square to the fence,but turn it 45 degrees to the fence to get the hole for the height adjustment tool out where you can get at it.




    CPeter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Will
    Any router and lift suggestions or websites that I can pass on?
    Check this site out www.routertechnologies.com. Saw it at the WW'ing show in Toronto, Ont. Canada. Works from the top of the router table. Beats any lift I've seen to date, and I've seen most of them.

    Price ? $199.00 CDN funds
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    I started out with the Jessem Rout-R-lift. There was too much "lash" in the height adjustment system. You had to turn the crank some before any height change started. You can work around it ok, but it was a pain. I got the woodpecker PRL and have been happy as a clam every since. I use a PC 7518 in it. Dick B.

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