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I'm thinking of getting an aftermarket variable speed thing for an
older bosch 3 1/4 horse router [1611]. do they work well? do they go
from zero? do you guess the rpm by sound? I'm doing this so i can
safely run panel bits in a table. any info will help...thanks.

Not sure about this, but I remember reading somewhere that an
aftermarket variable-speed controller should not be used if you have a
soft-start router.

I don't know if your 3 1/4 hp Bosch is (my 2 1/4 hp Bosch is), and it
may depend on the _type_ of variable-speed controller, but something
you might look into.