On 3/8/2014 1:11 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
JayPique wrote in
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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


You might have a bit of dust inside the motor, and there's a chance it
would be dislodged if you rotate the shaft manually.

If the brushes are removable, I'd probably look at those next. Remove
the brush and shine a light down the hole it came out of. Look for
anything other than the motor wall and commutator.

After this, disassembling the router will probably be necessary. Once
apart, I'd look for any foreign matter and start tracing the power system
with a meter.

Puckdropper

I don't know what type of motor the router has, but in my table saw
motor there are a set to contacts that are in the starting circuit.
Occasionally a wood chip will get into these contacts preventing their
proper operation. When this happens, all you have to do is disassemble
the motor and clean the dust and wood chips from the insides. Just
remember what comes out must go in as far as the parts are concerned