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This is showing a new use for my router table in the kitchen
Smallpatch posted a topic in Home Improvement
Okay, day before yesterday our over the range microwave went out.....we have lived here about 22 years and this is the third microwave for this house. When we bought this new double wide it came with all new appliances, GE was the brand. The first one lasted 2 years. Next we bought an LG microwave that was a returned model to the store for what ever reason???? It lasted 20 years until day before yesterday...Called around to see if anyone would install it for free if we bought a new, any brand. About 300.00 was not an exactly quote for they all said nothing ever fits the same holes as the last brand so this will probably cost for from all those exploritory holes drilling before they could come up with the holes in the exactly the right place... So being one who never liked strangers in my house beating on the walls trying to find wood on the other side of the sheetrock and then giving a poor excuse of their wasting so many drill bits I just told wife we would install the new microwave our selves. No one wants to ever admit being born in 1935 has something to do with not being able to lift half of 50 lbs. So now is the time to use my little brain and come up with some mechanical aid. But honey a counter top model is half as much as the ones people hang almost up to the ceiling. So in comes the first part of our helpers, a roll around router table on wheels. Next I have to get it the same height as the cabinets so lot of shims and large pieces of BB and a few clamps for underneath all that the dials and knob ends of the cook top has to be protected. Next in comes a roll around transmission jack with an extra piece of BB to go on the top of the jack to sit the microwave on.. and if anyone has ever uninstalled and installed a microwave then you know the back bottom of the microwave has to go in first and sit in the little holder one has to attach in the right area of the wall. Then you raise up the front of the microwave to the three holes one already marked and drilled the holes in the top of the cabinet for the long screws to go through... This is what the scene looked like after we took out the old wave and the new one is sitting there ready to set upon the lift and get a joy ride up in to the hole . This last picture shows the rea after I took the jack away and was starting to clear away the residue after the new microwave was in and working. Now All I got to do is take away the helpers and reattach the rope lights under the coulter. It might have went quicker if we had have bought another LG but no one in Breckenridge sells them and going to Abilene and finding one was no guarantee the holes would be in the same exact location being 20 years apart in the time of manuf. This microwave we got had 3 ways one could configure where they wanted the exhaust to exit out the microwave , from the top or from the side or recirculate within itself.. But, the old one come out the top in the exact middle but this new model did come out the top but only on the side of the middle and was a bugger to make the pipe stretch and curve over to the side... But anyway, my invention of the transmission jack sitting on the portable router table made it extra nice to work on new holes especially after I added a Gandy milk carton to sit on the top of the jack so this old model body didn't have to exert any muscle especially with wife taking care of the other half of the things we had to lift made it a nice easy job. And with the added safe of using clamps to make sure the plywood did not damage the knobs gave me a job I started out dreading. By the way this is a Fridigaire this time. Just another example of a wood worker having the ability of thinking with his little brain!
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