| Hey DeWalt!! What
were you thinking of when you designed this part?
Shame on someone. This part should be a recall
before someone gets hurt!!! |
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| I recently purchased the
DW61B3E 3 Piece Router Kit (see motor in pictures below)
and with the very first use, I had troubles trying to free the
roll pin from the collet and nut so I had to remover the motor
from the base. Once I removed the router bit and
pressed on the button several times, the roll pin slid
back and freed the collet. I inserted
the router bit and tightened the collet the second time.
Again I had to press in the locking button several times
before I could turn the router motor freely.
While doing a test cut, the roll pin worked it's way in
to the locking nut and made one heck of a sound,
Lucky the Off - On switch is located of a fast an easy
shut off.. |
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| While inspecting the
router, I noticed that the Roll / Pin was partly out and
because of the free play in the pin, The pin would hit
the Nut on the Collet.. |
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| Knowing this was a new
router and just removed from the case for the first time, I
decided to see what was wrong. I removed the motor from
the housing, removed the router bit for the third time with
the aid of my "Porter Cable Router Wrenches" and did a visual
inspection. |
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| As you can see in the
pictures below Fig #1 The locking button does not
sit properly. I removed the three screws in
the locking device and found that the roll pin and the spring
came out of the black button. Realizing this pin was a
pressure fit. I placed the pin in to the proper location and
tapped it in place with a hammer. I placed the spring
over the pin and inserted it in to the locking housing.
To my surprise, the pin soon slipped out of the black button
and would again slide against the shaft below the collet..
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| I also noticed that the
locking housing or the motor base is of poor quality. When the
three screws are tightened (doing the front screw first)
The two screws to the rear can not sit properly causing the
rear of the locking housing to raise and allowing the black
button the pop out. |
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| For my safety and for the
safety of others around me, I removed this 'Locking
Device' (spring and Roll Pin) from my router and will go
back to using my two wrenches from the "Porter Cable Router"
to insert and remove my router bits.
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| Because I have many other
DeWalt Tools and I would personally recommend them to others,
I am posting this on my web site as a way to warn others of my
happenings with this DeWalt Router and the locking device.
Feel free to email me with your comments on the link below.
I will also send a link to this page to Dewalt and post their
comments later.. Good Luck with your
projects.. John |
