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Donald R. Dunn
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2025
This turned out to be a valuable tool especially for the cabinets I am making. This is the safest and easiest way to route the end of a board.
tr888
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2025
The item was packaged tightly swaddled in plastic wrap, not with any parts floating around loose as sometimes happens on Amazon with Sellers who sell everything from garden hoses, to pet water bowls, to woodworking accessories.The aluminum base is well-machined with no sharp edges. It's about 1/4 inch thick.The instructions for assembly are pretty clear, with parts listed and labeled, and with helpful if not perfectly accurate drawings. Four washers are not listed or shown; they belong with the sliding block, which looks to be made of UHMW. The support block for the clamp is made of the same.All the holes are in the right place and everthing went together OK with one exception, requiring a replacement unit, which is en route. The problem: two spacer posts support the plexiglas piece. They are secured through the bottom with M8x16mm phillips flat-head screws and the same size screws are used to fasten the plexiglas piece to the top of these posts from above. My sled arrived with one of the posts lacking an internal thread on one end.At 90mm (~3.5 inches) these spacer posts are quite tall compared to their counterparts on competing sleds, too tall, in fact, for my router-table's aftermarket fence. The plexiglas piece floats a half-inch above the top of the fence, but it needs to contact the face of the fence to guide the sled.So I will have to cut those posts down and buy some M8x60 mm flat-head screws and nuts; and if the metal of the spacer posts is too hard to cut with a hack saw, I will have to source a couple of spacers. The competing sleds can't handle stock thicker than 5/4 without modification, and I have 6/4 stock, so modification of a ready-made sled would have been required in any event for my project, and modifying this sled will actually be easier than modifying the othersP.S. The replacement unit arrived and I swapped out the defective one. The posts are solid metal, not threaded all the way through, so I could not shorten them. I bought two M6 x 45mm unthreaded stainless steel spacers on mcmaster-carr. With shipping it came to almost $28 dollars and a pack of M6x60mm 304 stainless screws was another $8. I was rushing to find these items and might have been able to spend half what I spent on the spacers with some more time devoted to shopping for them. I used M6 knobs to hold the plexiglas in place on the M6x60mm screws . With the shorter clamp in place, the one that looks like a miniature junkyard electromagnet, and the 45mm spacers, this sled can handle 6/4 stock.
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