I'll get the pic up in a bit, but I did a thing.
I needed to swap out my recalled Pittsburgh jack stands since I don't cherish the idea of my truck falling on my dome, and they had a coupon for the Daytonas that made for an even swap, but while I was in the coupons for the week, I noticed the Bauer corded trim router was on coupon for $34.99, which is a meager fraction of what I would pay for a better router. Not saying it is equivalent of the fabled Bosch Colt by any means, but functionally for me it is close enough and I can buy 4 of these for what I would pay for one Colt...
https://www.harborfreight.com/65-Amp...vent_id=182939
Anyone that has followed my posts for any amount of time knows I have been ultra leery of the HF routers, but my brother got one of the full size fixed / plunge base router kits and a couple of the guys from my church have been talking about these little Bauer routers. Fit and finish seems pretty good with it.
I have been finding the 2.5HP full size Hitachi is more than a handful when using my signmakers bits and doing some of the finer work that, well the big beastie is just too much for.... Not to mention the hassle of changing out the 1/2 for 1/4 collets.
It's certainly not going to replace the Hitachi for the bigger tasks, but a worthwhile addition to the arsenal, I should have however grabbed a small tool bag for it to keep the wrenches etc... handy...
I needed to swap out my recalled Pittsburgh jack stands since I don't cherish the idea of my truck falling on my dome, and they had a coupon for the Daytonas that made for an even swap, but while I was in the coupons for the week, I noticed the Bauer corded trim router was on coupon for $34.99, which is a meager fraction of what I would pay for a better router. Not saying it is equivalent of the fabled Bosch Colt by any means, but functionally for me it is close enough and I can buy 4 of these for what I would pay for one Colt...
https://www.harborfreight.com/65-Amp...vent_id=182939
Anyone that has followed my posts for any amount of time knows I have been ultra leery of the HF routers, but my brother got one of the full size fixed / plunge base router kits and a couple of the guys from my church have been talking about these little Bauer routers. Fit and finish seems pretty good with it.
I have been finding the 2.5HP full size Hitachi is more than a handful when using my signmakers bits and doing some of the finer work that, well the big beastie is just too much for.... Not to mention the hassle of changing out the 1/2 for 1/4 collets.
It's certainly not going to replace the Hitachi for the bigger tasks, but a worthwhile addition to the arsenal, I should have however grabbed a small tool bag for it to keep the wrenches etc... handy...
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