Rockcliff Router Build, MDF

[Lee Roberts]

Hiya, been a busy guy these last few days not had a chance to work on the build.

I would say they are ok, I’m building with 1/2" size rods and they seem to be fine for what I’m going to do. Pen5 has the 16mm rods and is more than happy with them; my father in-law said that they are great until they wear down (bronze bearings). I can’t see they will with the light cutting I’m going to be doing, but I guess it’s fair to say they will at some point.

Only thing I found that I can say I noticed about the bronze bearings was, I put them upright on an off cut of MDF and the impregnated oil started to soak into the MDF a little. Also if you can, try and keep everything clean as dust seems to get in between the rods and the bearings. I know that’s probably obvious but I didn’t think about it when I was test fitting everything and I noticed small scratches on the rods, nothing major but still not what we want.

Can’t really think of anything at this point mate sorry, I’ve got to points of contact for suppliers if you need a price or anything like that.