I am not certain about the base but otherwise it sounds exactly the same as one of mine. The motor is anyway. It will have come with a colet to reduce from one half inch to one quarter inch so you can use either size shafted bit in it. It is not however a plunge router. For sign or letter making you will want a plunge base for good work. I don't know if this motor will fit into a plunge base but I rather doubt it given the height adjustment system which requires that you rotate the motor inside the base to set the depth of cut.
It is time you spent a few bucks on a new decent plunge router, it will be well worth while. No self respecting router user can be satisfied really without a small collection of them anyway.It is probably in the bible somewhere. If not I think it should be. BTW, the 60 Hz simply means 60 cycles per second, the frequency of the alternating current that the motor uses. All electrical equipment for use in North America uses 60 Hz. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] What can you tell me about my router given this info By the way, I had a contractor friend drive me home from bible study this morning, so I took the opportunity to get him to look at my router. Here's what he said/read. model number 690 lr heavy duty router motor 6902 or too 60 hz not sure what HZ stands for. 11A maybe amp? 27 500/\minimum rpm the base is model number 1001 t2 this info is all found on the tag which is on cord, directly down from where the chord comes out of the router. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Kennedy To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] What can you tell me about my router given this info That is a fixed base router. The part about Tennessee is where they are located. When you twist the body and it looks like it is coming apart, that is how you adjust the bit height. There is a large ring around the body that locks it in place when you have set the bit height. That model has a bracket or guard around the on off toggle switch. Have to love the 6 inch cord too... Now the good news. It is a fairly light weight router and will do fine for most small jobs. Making a sign would be a lot easier with a plunge router because you don't have to do any tipping, just start it and push down. I've never tried following a template with a fixed base but I know it would be tricky at the least. You do understand that the sign making kits you are looking at requires the letters to be cut into the wood and you aren't cutting out letters to glue to another board. Right? You put the template over the board you want to route and you are cutting letters into the board usually with a core box bit. Some people think they are cutting out letters and that isn't the case. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:43 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] What can you tell me about my router given this info think I have only used this current router all of once or twice. The base or plate or whatever is adjustable, just not spring loaded. You can adjust it, by turning the router to unscrew it from this base, then clamp it down. I got my 6 year old to read on it before she left to school. She said, it's a porter cable, motor 1001-t2 Jackson tenessee, 38305 USA Made in mexico. I don't know what all that means. hahahah I mean, probably city, state and zip, andso on, but the other I'm not sure of yet. I had my wife look at it just now and she said this. model 1001-72, on the base plate or whatever the term is for it, the part which comes off,/unscrews and which can be clampped to a router table, she thinks the number on it is 995829 beside that it has 2007 then beside that it has 14-49 Tell me if you know what any of that means Matt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
