
All you need to do is drill an extra hole in the plate. They come with a wrench or handle that lifts the router for you (from above the table obviously). Check out the triton, ridgid, freud, among a few others. If you buy certain routers, many come with a built in lift. 6.35 Add to Cart 4 Adjusting Rod Part 2610922527 In-Stock. The ones I saw at rockler blow the mind, but they cost just as much as they are awesome.

I've got enough change at the moment to get the router and whatever plate and accessories I need. sounds like somthing nice, but they cost more than the blasted router itself, by far. Seems like it would be better to just have a dedicated base just for the table, like this: Base has threaded holes for mounting to router table positioned in Bosch 4-hole pattern and common 3-hole pattern. The RA1165 under-table base can be mounted to virtually any table surface and common router table plates. Is there a better way? It seems like it would be annoying to have to screw and unscrew it from the table plate all the time, and it also seems like it would wear out the screw ports in the base of the router. I'm going to mount the base of the router flush to the bottom of the router plate. Buy Bosch RA1165-(2610925360) Other tools in Bosch Accessories category at lowest online prices - Find Bosch RA1165-(2610925360) tool diagram / schematic. Trying to figure out if it is metal or some kind of plastic.
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I have a 1617 in a Jet Xacta lift (Jessem) that came with my table saw and a PC 7518 in my Kreg router table. Product 2: NEW AND IMPROVED: The Bosch RA1165 Under-Table Router Base is the new base for the 1617/1618 series routers, replacing the RA1164 Over the years.
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Are you going to go with a lift or just a plate and then use the adjustment mechanism in the base? Kreg makes a plate that's predrilled for the 1617
