Buddy BT48 Dewalt Router Y-Axis Tram Help Needed

[Eric Haney]

2012 BT48. Original porter cable router stopped working so upgraded to Dewalt router that Shopbot is now offering. When surfacing a board, the Y-axis isn't perfectly perpendicular to the work piece so leaving a small ridge each pass. The only adjustment I see is the minimal slop in the router holder bolt holes. Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks

[curtiss]

take a 6 inch piece of 1/8 diameter wire and bend the last half inch of each end 90 degrees to make "sort of an S" ... insert it into a 1/8 collet so you can rotate it above the table ... as you rotate it above the table manually, it the router is vertical, the end of the wire will be the same height off the table in all 4 directions ... use some sort of flat stock as a feeler gauge ... adjust as needed

... years back some guy made a bracket and a few set screws to adjust the router, sort of like a pool table

[jerry_stanek]

When I got my Shopbot way back they supplied plastic shim strips with it. Different thicknesses in the 1000ths