"John Siegel" wrote in message
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I understand speed controllers but not why you would want one on a router.
For a handheld router, any bit large enough to require reducing the
speed is probably too large to use safely hand held. In general most
people use larger routers in tables and they all seem to have variable
speed built in. So where does the use of a speed controller come in?
John


Some of us cheapskates have a still-working, older, high-horsepower
router, and we'd like to slow it down when putting it in the table. If
old reliable ever breaks down, I guess I'll get one of them new-fangled
variable-speed jobbies.

Henry