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After some thought, the plunge base for the PC 690 router motor I have was the same price as the DeWalt part. I ordered the plunge base so that I don't have a perfectly good router motor sitting in a drawer. Now I will have a working one and a broken one in a drawer. I can fix the DeWalt at some point in the future. I'd like to try and fix it, it's one of my the tools that's been with me the longest. It's going on 20 years.
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(12-13-2018, 08:47 AM)crokett™ Wrote: After some thought, the plunge base for the PC 690 router motor I have was the same price as the DeWalt part. I ordered the plunge base so that I don't have a perfectly good router motor sitting in a drawer. Now I will have a working one and a broken one in a drawer. I can fix the DeWalt at some point in the future. I'd like to try and fix it, it's one of my the tools that's been with me the longest. It's going on 20 years.
Better than the other way around.
I don't have any dewalts, just PC's. I'm wondering if your dewalt can be turned into a fixed speed by removing the board.
They probably do make a fixed speed in the same design router I assume
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(12-13-2018, 10:42 AM)Stwood_ Wrote:
Better than the other way around.
I'm wondering if your dewalt can be turned into a fixed speed by removing the board.
that thought occurred to me. I'm in no real hurry. Im going to talk to an EE friend about it, eventually. 10 years ago I'd have brought it to work and bought somebody lunch and they'd have rewired it for me already. All those guys are gone now though, we don't do hardware at our site any more. I bought that router 18 years ago. I didn't buy for the soft start, I bought it because at the time it was the most comfortable plunge router to use of the ones I tested.
