Quote Originally Posted by Blackrat View Post
Jazz , I do agree ....
Do you feel I should just raise the bearing a bit to have a touch more clearance like Clive suggests ?

I don't find many examples of moving rails ... Got any links ;-)
No I suggest you have moving rails.!! . . . .The whole idea with any area of the machine is to try and reduce vibration at the tool and moving the bearing higher will just make this worse. Yes you'll have more clearence but you'll get more vibration.

Most machine builds on this forum use moving rails so Check them out.!

To be honest if your just building a Router for cutting wood and soft materials then it's not a problem but if you want to cut harder materials which often require shorter tooling then it does become a problem. Moving rails helps get around this without messing around raising the work or having moving table.

If you want good combination so can cut all materials then have a moving table along with moving rails.