WhiteRook

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how many of you builders use small routers to make parts ?

flyboy2610

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I have a Porter Cable compact router (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Porter-C...-450/203054718) that I use for various projects. I especially like ease and secure locking of the depth adjustment. I've never used it to make parts for a plane before, though. What type of parts are you thinking of making? For cutting formers and ribs on a regular basis, I would go with a CNC router. There are plenty of them out there.

raptureboy

I use my dremel with the optional router base. I also have one of the router tables for it and that is handy for trimming parts also I use it with an abrasive disc to make tracks for canopy tracks by slitting square brass tube.

Hydro Junkie

I use a Dremel the same way, with a router base. It's much less expensive to buy a base than it is to buy a pin router

carlgrover

I have the dremel router table. I only use it to cut thin grooves here and there. I also have a 3 1/4 HP router that I use for making furniture. I've never used it for anything airplane related (I build giant scale too).

carl

mgnostic

I've used the router attachment on my dremel as well. It will even take a small "roto-zip" bit. I've used the roto-zip to cut aluminium cowls.

WhiteRook

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I mainly want to use it for square cutting hardwood ply after I saw cut it . I have read that the dremel router
table is not a well made product , any problems with it?

carlgrover

I like my dremel router table. No problems with it and I consider it to be a quality product. Keep in mind that I've had mine for 20+ years. I don't know if they make them like they used to.

Funny thing about this thread. I haven't touched my router table for a dog's age and the day after I see this post, I need to use it.


carl

mgnostic

The main thing is just don't expect it to be something that it is not. With a dremel router table you are clamping a plastic bodied tool into a fixture. If you push it, it's going to flex. A problem is that advertising tends to present tools as being more capable than is practical. Yes, you can shape a one inch think plank of seasoned ash with a dremel tool but you probably aren't going to be that happy about it. On the other hand, if you take it easy, truing up plywood up to 1/4 inch is probably pretty doable.