Phenolic ?

[poolhound]

I am looking for a small piece of Phenolic for router plate, where would be a good place to find this, can you buy it in a regular store?


Jon

[mschrank]

Not sure where you might find that...check in the yellow pages under "Plastics"

Matthew (TribalWind) had some for sale/barter awhile back, you might check with him:

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=18214&highlight=phenolic

[AlanJ]

I'm not sure what you'll end up paying for a piece big enough to make your own.. but you could save yourself come trouble and get this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002242B/qid=1145398674/

This is what I have. The extras (levelling kit, rings, post etc) make it worthwhile.

[Bollox]

McMaster Carr has various grades in various sizes too.
Mike

[LCHIEN]

Go to www.usplastics.com and do a search for Phenolic, several grades of sheet material can be found.

[onedash]

Depending on the size you need I bought a JESSEM. It was $50 at woodcraft. They have uncut pieces for much less if you want to drill your own. I think around $23. and 3/8" LEXAN for $12 I think. In either case the pieces are more than big enough for any router aplication.

[poolhound]

Depending on the size you need I bought a JESSEM. It was $50 at woodcraft. They have uncut pieces for much less if you want to drill your own. I think around $23. and 3/8" LEXAN for $12 I think. In either case the pieces are more than big enough for any router aplication.

sounds good I will check them out


Jon

[onedash]

I agree with AlanJ though that the leveling srews are great and the insert rings lock in place. depending on what your table is made out of you could put leveling srews in the table. My jessem table has screws holes to put screws in to level the plate from the table instead of the plate. There were no screws in it though. Not sure if there should have been or not.
Its fine with the plate screws though. On my small craftsman table I made one out of Lexan but drilled one of the holes a little to fast and cracked it.

[John Hunter]

Alan,

Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for and with free shipping.