Photo Index - Stanley Works, Stanley Electric Tools - Table-top Router/Shaper Table

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Stanley Works, Stanley Electric Tools
New Britain, CT

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Shaper, Wood
Machine Size:	12x12
Submitted By:	Dave Potts

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Table-top Router/Shaper Table
Date of Manufacturer:	1930s
Serial Number:
Last Updated	8/16/2007 2:07:34 PM

Comments:

This machine was procured from a fairly large on-line auction emporium for an amount that is too embarrassing to admit. The top measures 12 inches square and has a round throat/hole with a shoulder to permit the use of smaller throat plates. The router motor included is one of Stanley's smallest types-- the hand shaper model, and is held in place with a pivoting bracket that permits tilting the router bit. The two leg brackets that are bolted to the 3/8" plate-steel top are identical, and are marked with casting number C 1780. The unit weighs close to 50 pounds.

No fence was included with the machine when I received it, but there appears to be remnants of a guard that mounted from below the table. Two patent numbers are stamped into a plate mounted on the machine, both assigned to Ray L. Carter c. 1925. Patent # 1532683 was for a portable shaper and mortising machine, and number 1566824 was for a portable wood shaper

http://www.google.com/patents?id=lsllAAAAEBAJ&dq=1532683
http://www.google.com/patents?id=pzdaAAAAEBAJ&dq=1566824

Neither patent describes the machine I have entered here. For the sake of perspective, the pictures below were take with this router table placed on top of a floor-standing Stanley Router/Shaper table S5A that I recently restored and use on a regular basis.

http://owwm.com/PhotoIndex/detail.asp?id=5996

BTW.... there is no rattle of tin when either of these units are used.

Photo 1:

Comments: Side view of the cast iron legs that support the 12 x 12 x 3/8 table
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Photo 2:

Comments: The router table is rotated on to its side so that you can see the motor tilting arrangement
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Photo 3:

Comments: Remnants of a guard or hold-down are mounted from below the rear side of the machine
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