Rockcliff Router Build, MDF

[Lee Roberts]

So the sun was still blazing and the girls still shopping, so I pushed on and got some more done.
I decided before I went on to the next stage, I would test fit the rods and rails and the bearings of course, you'll notice that I’ve put my bearings on the outside of the machine. This isn’t a must but I would like to put some tension on the rods so by putting them on the outside we can do just that.

To test fit the rails I had to make the 50mm x 50mm rail support plates, again I just marked the centre and drilled out a 13mm diameter hole to receive the rails. You can see the rails are to long so ill cut them down later on in the build, I may not though as I could just rebuild the machine to a bigger size !