I got distracted once while locking down a 690
in a router table.

When that 22,500rpm motor with a
straight cutter came down and started eating
up everything in sight, I was trying to leave
the building.

My plunge base and me never got over that
little incident.



Robert Allison wrote:

I had been using my portercable router on a routing table and had to
take it to a jobsite to do a couple of things. When I went to use it, I
had set it on a worktable and bent down to plug the cord into the wall
socket behind the table. When I plugged it in, it was on. It started
up (soft start) and stayed right where it was, not falling onto my head
with the 3/4" dado bit in it, without the base.

I always thought the soft start was nice, but now I find that I just
love it for some reason.