The Problem With Router Tables (And How I Fixed It)

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29 Comments

  1. So happy to see your success and amazing artwork here, my friend. You’re truly awesome! 🌟👏

  2. Nice build. Perfect upload timing so I could watch it before going into work. I’m going to use card catalog drawer pulls so I don’t have to use post it notes.

  3. Hey Bob, this is a great build, I like how to drawer goes around router table box. Have you and your family been enjoying your new pool? Look forward to your next video.

  4. It is fun to watch videos where the subject of the video is having fun. Glad to see you enjoying yourself!

  5. I always appreciate how you work through a build process and discuss all of the details involved David! Definitely one of the best router table builds that I have ever seen on YT! BRAVO! 👍👍🔨🔨

  6. Love how you snuck in a bit of philosophical insight in this one. Nice router table build, too. Thanks for sharing?

  7. For the triangular section on either side, you can add a flip up/down piece. That way you have a large surface when needed or flip them down so you can pull out the entire unit for long boards

  8. Awesome build, Dave! 😃
    It turned out great!
    Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

  9. I am so impressed that that Mac Desktop still functions lol. That thing is a classic 🤣 I love it

  10. Separate dust collection like you did is 100% the way to go, but if you were forced to use only one collector, you’d be better off having a split that goes into two 2″ lines instead of one 2″ and one 4″. There’s more resistance to flow on the 2″ so the air will “favor” the 4″. If you’re familiar with simple circuits, the calculation for current flow through two parallel resistors is an excellent analogy (though the math would be perfectly the same).

  11. Former mining vent tech here – your anemometer (the thing measuring airflow) doesn’t do CFM because it doesn’t know how big an opening you’re using it on. In the mines, we’d mount one on a ten foot pole, and evenly move it back and forth around from floor to back (ceiling) and side to side. (Ours were analogue so to measure feet per minute, we had to take the sample over 1 minute, otherwise it just gave us “feet of air flow over an indeterminate period of time” which isn’t particularly useful, a digital one might be able to give an average feet per minute value without that). With that average ft/minute measurement at a pre-designated position, we could multiply that against the measured cross-section area of the tunnel and thus get CFM. (That part was done in the spreadsheet – Average ft/minute is what we recorded down in the mines.

    If anyone has questions about how airflow stuff works, I can give you some info. I won’t be able to remember everything from those days, it’s been a *while* since I’ve done that work, but it was a memorable few months, so I can probably answer some general questions.

  12. Pulling out is always a sound strategy. Lol. Couldn’t help myself. Love the new cabinets

  13. 1:52 if I remember correctly, the motorized fence hasn’t scratched the surface.

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