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54 Re: routers
From: mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields)
Date: 18 Jul 88 13:32:28 GMT
In article <3d3f7ebb.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>, nieusma@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jeffrey W Nieusma) writes:
> If you get a Craftsman, you won't have to worry about it breaking ;-)
> Mine works great!
We have had the opposite experience (my dad's top of the line craftsman
has thrown a comutator segment twice and a winding once and I know of
2 others which have self destructed with little use). Craftsman used
to have good tools (the hand tools are still ok) however in the last
5 or 10 years, the power tools seem to have turned to junk and the
motor ratings are very strange (they do not have the power they claim to
have). For a good router, buy porter cable, makita (they have a nice
3 hp plunge router - the 3612BR which we have and LOVE) etc. Approx.
1 year ago, there was a comparison of plunge routers in Fine Woodworking -
if you need the actual issue, I can find out which one it was (it is at
home in a stack). Ooops - I just re read the part about 'under $100' -
that rules out the big plunge routers (the makita 3612BR can be had for
approx $180 mail order). I would still go with a makita, porter-cable
or ryobi in the $100 range.
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