Vertical mounted router table?
Does anyone have any thoughts about designing, building and setting up a router table like a panel saw? In other words, almost vertical, with a slight angle, so that it doesn't take up as much space. Loading and unloading sheets of material would be easier and I was planning on using a ledge at the bottom edge as a register for material. Either a stop or using angle stock as a vise to hold the bottom edge...with another stop or angle-stock vice at the non-mobile end of the table...constant location of all sheets, +/- .010".
Vacuum table is a good idea...
...not to mention if you need to get at any of the manifold or fittings, or even installing new vacuum "modules" it would be pretty easy to get to. I myself like the idea of a mostly vertical design because I can have a double head gantry...one side for a router, the other side for a plasma cutter...that's why I didn't suggest a vacuum table to begin with. I'm not a big fan of "uni-tasker" machine tools.
Vertical CNC Router Table
DynaCNC has been building one for a long time now. www.dynacnc.com. I want one someday, but the plasma table I own is working for me now. Hopefully soon.