"Brian" wrote in message
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I understood your "point" the first time, but I still can't understand the
need for for any safety mechanism. I have no problems with the Milwaukee
motor falling out of the base under my table (and nor should anybody
else),
because I support it with my hand when making coarse adjustments. It is
that simple. I mean, you have to push it up and down to make the coarse
adjustment anyhow! Just make sure your hand is there before you press the
release.

I am not faulting the Milwaukee. I was just doing a comparison of the
two routers in this respect. I discovered this when I held the Milwaukee
upside down in the store by the housing and almost dumped the motor on the
floor when I depressed the coarse adjustment button. If the router is down
or extended to the end of the "adjustment screw" and you reach under to
lower the bit a bit more by the fine tune adjustment knob, you may not be
holding the bottom of the router and you may run out of threads to hold the
motor in the base. Not likely but it could happen. It would be something
that you should be aware of when making any kind of an adjustment. This
simply cannot happen with the Triton and or the current Bosch fixed base
routers. I see your point that it is unlikely that it would drop during
actual working conditions and 99.9 % of all adjustments under a table.