Cms router top (uk)

[Nippychippy]

This might be a long shot  but I might have a job soon making some cabinets and book case I have been looking for a good router table. I have been looking at the ujk router table but every thing is an extra but looks great its up there price wise as the festool and I am sure it will weight a tonne so it won't be to portable. Trend cmt is ok I have used it before it's light but is made of mdf so it could swell in storage  and the adjustment is abit of a night , would the ujk router lift fit in and would it make the table top sage. The cmt cost about £250

The festool one it's the one we would all go for  but at £900 it's a hell of a lot of money  and would the of 1400 be up to the task routing rails and stials in mdf

And the cheeky bit of the post is would festool let me demo it for a week  [big grin]

Advice would be great guys

 

[Stone Message]

Hi Robert

I really do appreciate that the CMS-OF solution is not cheap if you have not already got the base unit but...

The UJK solution is far too heavy to be taken to a job site and, when you add up the decent extras (like the Professional Fence, Router Elevator etc), then it is up there with the complete CMS-OF. Here is what I have said before:

If I had to chose one router table then I would go for the CMS-OF for the following reasons:

  - Will take any of my Festool routers
  - Very portable and easily tucked away when not in use
  - CMS is a good starting point for other machines (TS etc)
  - Folds up and goes in the Yaris together with CTL26 and 4 or 5 other tools in systainers
  - Dust collection is superb
  - If you need to extract the router it takes less than 2 minutes
  - It works brilliantly

If you were living next door then I would break my own lifetime rule and let you borrow mine.

Peter

 

[Nippychippy]

You are amazing Peter. I have been re watching the vids you made of making the mdf panels and the ujk table reveiw  Before I put up the post. Money's a bit tight to be buying the cms unit with weddings to paid for  [scared]

 

[joiner1970]

What about just making a table like most people do ? I made mine including the fence with extraction. It has been used to make loads of doors using my wealden cutter set and a dewalt 626.

 

[Nippychippy]

Ye I might have to do some thing like that with some t track think I'll need to get  an extension collet

 

[Stone Message]

Ye I might have to do some thing like that with some t track think I'll need to get  an extension collet

Even with the UJK table you need an extension collet. My old ones were (I think) CMT and one failed. I mentioned it to the Axminster chap and he told me about their own brand which they make in their workshops. I now have one and it is very solid. The beauty is that you buy just one main collet extension and then only need to get the collet inserts for different sizes.

I am not sure whose wedding it might be but you do not need the collet extension with the CMS-OF. I have seen Festool kit on a wedding list a while ago !

Alternatively write a best seller, lets call it 50 Shades of Grey and Green, and use the money from the film rights to get the kit that you need.

I really hope it works out.

Peter

 

[Nippychippy]

Ha ha 50 shades of grey and green I love it  I am sure it will work ok. If put that on any sort of wedding list  the misses will kill me  [scared]  like joiner1970 said I might  make one it will be a lot cheaper till I can afford the cms thanks for your help and all your vids

 

[hrrb]

...Alternatively write a best seller, lets call it 50 Shades of Grey and Green, and use the money from the film rights to get the kit that you need.

Peter

I watch '50 shades of grey' on TV every day.
We just call it 'weather forecast' here in Denmark. [tongue]

But I admit that '50 shades of grey and green' would be at better title for the weather forecasts during the summer....I'm already looking forward [big grin]

/Henrik

 

[Nippychippy]

Well dew to cost at the moment I took on joiner1970 advice and started to make my own  router table out of some scraps today I can't claim any design elements I watch a few YouTube vids and this seemed the best  so thank you to that guy. I have made the top and the inserts I need to make the fence and get some t track for the angle guide. I  have made it out of 18mm moisture resistant mdf

How do I seal and protect it to make it a smooth surface and I am using the angle guide form my dewalt table saw are all them guides the same its a t shape bar  so do I just buy t track. And what distance do I come for the center of router bit to the t track

Thanks for the help guys

 

[Nippychippy]

I have been on the axminister web site and I have seen mitre slot track  [blink] and universal t track  do I get one for the  mitre fence  and the other one for fence adjustment and for the fence feather boards. Slick low friction material it comes in sheet for and you stick it to you home made jigs and its 3mm thick  what does everyone else think

 

[joiner1970]

I've never needed an extension collet on my router. I use a dewalt 626 in my table fixed to an aluminium plate. So it's only the thickness of the plate you're going through so you shouldn't need an extension.

 

[Jimmy FineCut]

I'm in the same boat. I really need to get a router table set up in my shop to speed work flow and jobs up, but will need to take it with me on some shop fits.

I was looking at the ujk router parts the other day in my local Axminster and it all seems really well made for the money, but then out the corner of my eye I kept see the cms and router module!

Think I am going to pop back in the week and look closer at the router module its self. I'm thinking about buy that and making a table a to fit it into.

I have seen a few people have done it but not sure how how easy it will be [huh [unsure]

 

[Rob-GB]

One of the lesser mentioned factors of the CMS is that you can use the side extensions of the Kapex as infeed and outfeed tables, pic is not great but you can see them in use....

Rob.

 

[Nippychippy]

Really nice I so want one