On 3/7/2014 10:23 PM, JayPique wrote:
So I've got it hung in a router table running a quarter inch round-over on a few hundred MDF parts and it's easy-peasy. I get done, clean up, blow off the router motor and set it on top of the table for the next time I need it. Which was today. To my knowledge the router has not been used since I last did. I plugged it in to a working outlet, turned it on, and....nothing. There is no visible damage to the cord or the router itself. It has less than 10 hours use on it - practically new.

Any thoughts? I haven't started dismantling as it was discovered late today and I got mad and left. Plus it's Friday and I had a massage but that's a whole nuther story.

Tia
JP


Question how do you remove dust?

Too often I see people using a closed cabinet with holes drilled in the
door... and then they have the DC sucking air from that cabinet. Norm
Abrahms like.

Well most routers send air from the head of the motor toward the bit, so
if you are sucking the air out of the cabinet you are starving the motor
of air.. it can't cool, and you are sucking dust into the motor.

If you did this, than you probably need to open the motor, I'll bet
there is dust packed in the commutator.

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Jeff