Router planing sled

[nerfball]

Here's my sled. A little rudimentary but works well - I wish I saw this thread before making it

[attachimg=1]

 

[Wuffles]

Right, I'm back. Nothing better to do tonight than to try and find some UHMW tape from somewhere. Seems there's a shortage of people in the UK selling it - as far as I can tell.

eBay shows a bloke in Poland selling it in USD and then the rest of the Free World over the pond wanting to sell it cheap but with $50 delivery.

Anyone have any ideas where to get it in the UK? I'm looking at you [member=43478]Ed Bray[/member]

 

[Ed Bray]

I got my UHMWPE tape from the chap in Poland, it's very expensive in the UK.

I bought my sheet stuff from here: http://www.uhmwpesheet.co.uk/

 

[Wuffles]

Yep, I took your advice and got my sheets from there before. I'll do the same as you on the Polish fella.

 

[Mavrik]

I want to upgrade my sled to run on linear bearings on metal rods.

But now the suppliers want to know what size rods & bearings.

And I have no idea.
10mm? 16mm? 20mm?

I'm wanting to use my big router which is 6.1 kg and have a span of the short side of my MFT table.

What size rods & bearings do I go for?

Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

 

[SoulStealer52]

Would you shares your drawings with measurements of this sled, I would like to make me one.