Mast-R-Lift Excel II Package Reviews

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“I bought: • Mast-R-Lift Excel II Package • Dual Intake Dust Box • Pow-R-Tek SR Router Motor with Remote Switch • Micro-Adjuster For Router Table Fence There are two measures that, for me, determine the quality of a router table: durability and precise and repeatable setup in 3 dimensions (bit height (z), fence distance from the router axel (y), and distances along the fence (x)). This equipment appears to be very well made, and I do not believe that durability will ever be an issue. 1. It appears that the dust box does not have pre-drilled holes on the router tabletop. 2. The dust box should come with the “Hose Adapter Kit for Pow-R-Tek SR Router Motor” included. 3. “Mast-R-Fence III Router Table Fence” is attached to the tabletop with two bolts. It is NOT fixed in a position parallel to the front of the table but rather wanders around in a very imprecise manner. Lengthening the slide on the two side rails and adding a second bolt on each side would ensure that the fence is always parallel to the front of the tabletop. 4. The slides on the sides of the fence are not long enough. Setting the fence to zero on the router’s axel disengages the third location bolt, making it useless. Fortunately, the two remaining bolts secure the fence just fine. 5. The fence “floats” in position on the tabletop – with no “hard” locators. The position of the axel of the router is known with high precision, regardless of the brand of router used. The fence is attached to the tabletop with 8 high-precision pre-drilled holes. Therefore, the fence could easily be set to “zero” on the axel instead of flopping around with sliding bolts somewhere in the area of “zero”. The current, low-precision rails could be included for those silly enough to use non-Jessem tabletops.”

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