Have any of you used a Freud FT2000 in a router table without removing the springs?

Owen Lawrence wrote:
> Have any of you used a Freud FT2000 in a router table without
> removing the springs?

Oh, to answer your original question, I left the springs in.

"Owen Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Have any of you used a Freud FT2000 in a router table without
> removing the springs? I was hoping I wouldn't have to reconfigure
> everything if I wanted to remove it from the table and do some plunge
> routing. Maybe it's stiff because it's still new, but it seems too
> hard to adjust with all the weight of the router plus the force of the
> springs opposing the plastic adjustment knobby.
>
> I built the router table myself, and for now at least, there is no
> insert; the router hangs from the table top itself.
>
> Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> - Owen -
>
>
>

I didn't remove the springs, but I did mount the router in a plate. With
the router & plate pulled from the homemade table, adjusting the router to
a correct cutting height is not a problem.

Climbing under the table to adjust the handle is not something I would do.
There is also the lock lever to account for, BTW.

Patriarch,
using the Woodpecker's predrilled phenolic plate, with the various sized
throat rings, and happy enough with the combination.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:42:02 -0500, "Owen Lawrence"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Have any of you used a Freud FT2000 in a router table without
>removing the springs? I was hoping I wouldn't have to reconfigure
>everything if I wanted to remove it from the table and do some plunge
>routing. Maybe it's stiff because it's still new, but it seems too hard to
>adjust with all the weight of the router plus the force of the springs
>opposing the plastic adjustment knobby.
>
> I built the router table myself, and for now at least, there is no
>insert; the router hangs from the table top itself.
>
> Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> - Owen -
>
I use an early version of that router in the table. mine's single
speed, no soft start, if that helps you compare.

I left the springs in. I made a crank handle that press fits on the
depth adjustment knob. it makes it a *lot* easier to crank it up and
down. if you'd like I'll take a picture of it and post it on ABPW.

I've done it both ways. I don't recall any particular problem with springs
in, but as I always leave it in my table, I took the springs out. I use a
PC for hand-held work.

After several years of working in the table, the Freud sto starting
"Patriarch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Owen Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Have any of you used a Freud FT2000 in a router table without
>> removing the springs? I was hoping I wouldn't have to reconfigure
>> everything if I wanted to remove it from the table and do some plunge
>> routing. Maybe it's stiff because it's still new, but it seems too
>> hard to adjust with all the weight of the router plus the force of the
>> springs opposing the plastic adjustment knobby.
>>
>> I built the router table myself, and for now at least, there is no
>> insert; the router hangs from the table top itself.
>>
>> Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>> - Owen -
>>
>>
>>
>
> I didn't remove the springs, but I did mount the router in a plate. With
> the router & plate pulled from the homemade table, adjusting the router to
> a correct cutting height is not a problem.
>
> Climbing under the table to adjust the handle is not something I would do.
> There is also the lock lever to account for, BTW.
>
> Patriarch,
> using the Woodpecker's predrilled phenolic plate, with the various sized
> throat rings, and happy enough with the combination.