A Womack wrote in
:

Wanting a smaller trim type router for hand held use around the shop
with a 1/2" collet. The TR12 mainly stays in the router table, it
being a 5 minute pain to remove, remove the plate, reinstall the old
plate, change the bit, use it, remove the bit, put the old bit back,
remove the plate, install the plate, reinsert into the table.

If you want a trim router, because it's light and handy, then there are
some good ones.

If you want a 1/2" collet, because you don't want to buy more router bits,
that's OK, too.

I have the Porter Cable 310P, as well as the 7310. Both were improved
substantially, from a safety and usability perspective, by purchasing Pat
Warner's clear router bases, both round and offset.

So was the 690 that I have. Used with Pat's clear offset base, I used it
to cut door hinge mortises last weekend, something that I normally would
have used a trimmer for. The larger router base bridged the mortise more
easily, and spun the larger bit I was using more easily as well. (large
hinges, maple ply edge work.)

www.patwarner.com Lots of good router advice. No affiliation, etc. Just a
happy, repeat customer of a bright fellow, who stops by here occaisionally.

Pat offers his experienced opinions of a wide range of routers there.
Trust him.

Patriarch