Well, it seems like I'm the next in line to fall victim to the Porter Cable 7529 router.
I bought this about 8 years ago and have barely worn down the brushes 25%, taken great care of it.
The speed control aparently went bad and the brushes overheated trashing the armature.
Probably $100 to fix it now..

Is it even worth writing Porter Cable a letter of discontentment?

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Well, it seems like I'm the next in line to fall victim to the Porter
Cable 7529 router.
I bought this about 8 years ago and have barely worn down the brushes 25%,
taken great care of it.
The speed control aparently went bad and the brushes overheated trashing
the armature.
Probably $100 to fix it now..

Is it even worth writing Porter Cable a letter of discontentment?


If it makes you feel better but they will probably laugh.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:38:59 GMT,
wrote:

Well, it seems like I'm the next in line to fall victim to the Porter Cable 7529 router.
I bought this about 8 years ago and have barely worn down the brushes 25%, taken great care of it.
The speed control aparently went bad and the brushes overheated trashing the armature.
Probably $100 to fix it now..

Is it even worth writing Porter Cable a letter of discontentment?

Considering that even P-C admitted a couple of years after its
introduction (and several years ago) that it had faults, you'd
probably just be piling on with a message to the choir. They replaced
the 7529 in their product line with the allegedly improved 8529. It's
virtually indistinguishable in appearance from the 7529.


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