Router lift for ALDI Workzone router table – made some more refinements to the scissor jack.
Rather than the bottom of the router sitting directly on the jack, which tends to block the ventilation slots, it now sits in a frame where the top of each side has a U-shaped cut out to mate with the router handles.
Made some improvements and also fixed a few issues.
This is where it’s at…all come together quite well.
For the desk chair.
The original castors don’t roll smoothly any more, not helped by being clogged up with dog hair which is to hard to remove. Just get a new set. Continue reading “Today I got some new wheels”
Router lift for ALDI Workzone router table – not able to get to the workshop till late this afternoon but still managed to do something – get the scissor jack working !
We must be up to Version 3.0 and now the 3/8″ threaded rod length it to short.
I’ll put it in tomorrow morning and see how she starts, in the meantime giving it a top up charge.
Router lift for ALDI Workzone router table – in the end I had to drop the jack down a lot further than first envisaged.
And even had to add spacer block.
Fiddling around to see if this will operate, I think so…the increased angle of the pivot arms is about where the jack starts to deliver efficient lifting force.
Added a top and bottom plate for stability and replace the 1/4″ nuts with lock nuts. Currently one of the nuts has to be turned for testing the jack. I want the rod to turn so need to replace the hex nuts with Tee nuts…and epoxy in.
One thing I found very handy for my particular hobby is laminate flooring so bought a pack of the cheapest that Bunnings have which cost $28 bucks, well suited for the pivot arms of this scissor jack 
Look’s like they are closing in the south east side (lake side) of the main market complex which is good news for everyone on those inclement weather days.
Router lift for ALDI Workzone router table – as posted earlier the scissor jack failed (see first pic). It’s surprising how much upward force is required to overcome the router plunge springs.
We need to beef up the pivot arms from dowel to larger blocks.
Investigating the possibility of using a car scissors jack as a router lift ALDI Workzone router table.
Something like this to raise/lower the plunge router.