router plate for BT 3100 to fit porter cable 100 M

The base for the 100M is the same as the 690. I'd think
this wouldn't be so tough a thing to find.

UA100

Thomas Trainer wrote:
> I need a router plate for a Ryobi BT 3100 to fit porter cable 100 M
> router. I know there is the accessory kit which I purchased but the
> plate only fits ryobi routers. The plate fits into a reccess on the
> table.
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> It's dims are 1/4" height 7 1/16 x 8 9/16 with two corners cut off.
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> The 100 M base (PN 100-B) HAS 3 SCREW HOLES
> the holes are 5 inches from each other
> and each hole is 2 1/4 from the center
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> anyone know where I can get one or how can I drill holes to use the
> existing plate?

What I did to make it fit my Bosch 1617EVS is I taped a piece of thin
paper to the router baseplate, took a pencil, and proceeded to shade
over all the holes and edges so that they showed up. Kinda hard to
describe, hopefully you know what I mean. Then I took the piece of
paper, trimmed it down a little closer to the size of the shaded region,
taped it onto the BT3100 baseplate so that it was reasonable centered
(eyeballing it got it pretty dang close), and then took it to a drill
press and clamped the plate down and drilled the holes and countersunk
them. I just had to make sure everything was rotated so that the holes
I was drilling didn't run into the existing holes, and that the router
would set in a place where everything I needed was accessible (like the
clamp for the motor body, etc.)

HTH,

Monte