Mortise Centering Router Base

Really needs improvement. Brass pins should be ball bearings. But beside that the biggest issue is it not finding center. I have it on a Bosch with a fixed base. There are three screws to attach the base and each way I put it on gives me a different center. I found the one that is the closest and I shim with tape and use a lot of silicon spray. I'm making it work but it's not ideal. May be I got a lemmon. Or expected too much. Put calipers on the thing, nothing lines up.

I agree with the other reviewers about the friction between the brass pins and the wood. It does tend to drag. I took the advice of the other reviewer and made some nylon bearings. The real disappointment came when it was installed on my "PC 860 series" router, which is listed as compatible. The holes were off. It was an easy fix, but the whole point of purchasing a pre-made router plate is that it is *already finished.* There aren't any other comments about this by other reviewers. Perhaps the machine that was drilling the holes was having a bit of a hangover from too much oil over the weekend. Now that it is operational, I do use it and it works well. It doesn't pass muster, however, as an out of the box solution.

Fast delivery. Tried it out this evening. Works great. Had to drill a couple of mounting holes for my Ryobi but got lucky and was successful first try. Clamped a 3/4# piece in the vise and presto. A mortise right down the center. The base would easily get 5 stars if there were different models for different routers. No binding issues like other reviewers had. I think they may be twisting the router too tightly against the wood. It's a shame that the opening is 1 1/2" instead of 1 1/4". I could leave this plate on my router permanantly. If it had been designed to accept template bushings it would be the "perfect" base. 

I know we can make our own special use base plates like this one but I've got to tell you, for the $9.99 price tag it just isn't worth it! This is a top grade item and besides being useful for cutting mortises it gives you the advantage of having a see through base plate on your router for every day jobs!

I also failed to read that the base wouldn't fit my Skil router, but with a little modification I had it mounted,and running. This base saved me alot of time and frustration. Thanks.