Re: Router life, getting better bearings,

Hi David,

Good points. I'll be taking router #2 in next week for the
replacement of the bearings complements of Porter Cable. I'll ask to
see what wore.

When I took my first router in the guy at the shop, who seemed very
knowledgeable about rebuilding tools, said that almost all of the
routers are only built for 100 hours of life. Most users only turn
them on for a few minutes, and then shut them off. I asked him about
Bosch and Makita, and he felt the Porter Cable is at the top of the
quality scale (for single-phase). He said all have about the same
life on their bearings.

Have others out there found this to be true?

Thanks,

Brent

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "David A. Frantz"
<wizard@e...> wrote:

> Hi Brent;
>
> Before you can make a determination about buying higher quality

bearings

> it would help to know why the originals failed. I would ask for

the

> orignal parts back or rebuild the next one myself so that I could

get a

> good look at the bearings. Plus I'd want to make sure that it

is

> actually the bearigs that have failed and not the mounting
> arraingement. Wearing out after a 100 hrs seems pretty bad on

the

> surface but we don't know all the ins and outs here of what

happened to

> the motor.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>