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   steve | Dec 31, 2003 07:15am | #1

   i've had the 3 hp hitachi for a year or so, minor problems with plunge mechanism, needs regular lubes, other than that, smooth, powerful, and trouble free

   caulking is not a piece of trim

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   xMikeSmith | Dec 31, 2003 07:33am | #2

   we  got the Makita...RP 1101  (2 1/4 hp )  about $240

   here's Scott building his cedar doors... and then using it to rout the deck lites in some 5/4 Ipe'

   Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

   Edited 12/30/2003 11:41:20 PM ET by Mike Smith

   
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   royr | Dec 31, 2003 01:50pm | #7

   Mike,

    Which Bosch model , HP is the one he is using in the pictures you sent?

   Thanks

   Rupert

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   xMikeSmith | Dec 31, 2003 02:22pm | #8

   sorry rupert... not a bosch..

   38276.3 in reply to 38276.2 

   we  got the Makita...RP 1101  (2 1/4 hp )  about $240

   smooth start.... good features

   i think there was  a review last summer in JLC (?).... this one got good marks

   Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

   Edited 12/31/2003 6:23:28 AM ET by Mike Smith

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   RW | Dec 31, 2003 08:25am | #3

   Have two PC's, a Mak, a Milwaukee, and a Bosch. Prefer the Bosch. Won't ever buy another PC. The plunge mechanism stinks. It is not reliable (moves in operation - lack of adequate clamping pressure). Maybe I got a lemon. Who knows. But that's the kind of thing that kills your taste for something.

   "The child is grown / The dream is gone / And I have become / Comfortably numb "      lyrics by Roger Waters

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   reinvent | Dec 31, 2003 08:32am | #4

   Bosch all the way. Smoothest plunge. good ergonomics. Get variable electronic speed. Maintans constant speed and gives you soft start. Get a vacume shroud, that soapstone is going to throw alot of fine dust.

4. 
   IMERC | Dec 31, 2003 09:49am | #5

   Anybody mention Bosh to you yet.

   I have several PC's. They collect dust.

    

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   royr | Dec 31, 2003 01:47pm | #6

   Bosch it is.............Thanks for your help !

   Rupert

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   MisterT | Dec 31, 2003 02:40pm | #9

   I have a Hitachi Plunge router that is the predecessor to that one.

   No var. speed or soft start but basically the same machine

   Been using it in a router table and such for almost 15 years.

   Now that I type this it makes me think I want to get another.

   Or 2 or 3...

   Also makes me think that Hitachi might be coming out with a new model  the one newer than mine is at lest 10 years old.

   Hitachi makes good stuff.

   I like to think of them as the Toyota of tools, Good solid value.

   Mr T

   Do not try this at home!

   I am an Experienced Professional!