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How do I flush mount a trackball?
shmokes:
And here are two more that show how I routed a recess for the plate to sit flush as well as a near-finished control panel with laminate covering everything. As you can see, I just free-handed with the router since the sloppiness would be covered with the laminate. Setting the depth is simple. Just turn the mounting plate upside down, and put the edge of the router base on the mounting plate and lower the bit to the table. All this works especially well with a plunge router, but is easy with a fixed base too.
javeryh:
Awesome - this is exactly how I will do it with my fixed base router (the depth is easy enough to set) and my 1/2" dado cutting bit.