Router Lift - Above the table

[Nissim Avrahami]

Good day

After I made the Mortising jig for the router table, I thought that to bent under the bench every pass to lift the bit, is too much for my old back so I made a simple lift.

The lifting mechanism is located on the right side (behind the fence) so it will not interfere with any operation.

It takes some 30 seconds to install it and I'll probably improve a few things with time and experience.

It works very smooth (after a drop of oil in the T-nut) and takes some 30 turns from "bit level with the table" to "bit 1½" above the table".

Regards
niki

[Grant Wilkinson]

Ingenious, as always.

[Bruce Page]

Ingenious, as always.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I assume that you have a fender washer (or something) to spread the load between the pencil point and the router top. A jam up could be disastrous for your router.

[Nissim Avrahami]

Thank you so much Grant and Bruce

Bruce
No, I did not put any washer, I just drilled a very small dimple on the router base and the pencil point is getting into the dimple. That's because of the "new line" of routers (that looks like sports shoes)... the base is not flat.
On my old router, I glue a small metal piece at the bottom and it works like that for the last 10 years (see pic)

If you will look closely, under the lever (the one between the threaded rod and the plunger), on the workmate rail, you will see kind of long dowel. this is the fulcrum.

This dowel is free to roll on the rail and it is rolling during the cranking and lets the lever to change it length from the fulcrum to the plunger so the plunger always moves smoothly up or down.

If I would not put this dowel as fulcrum, the plunger could jam in the hole because of the circle motion of the lever.

Thanks
niki