Dewalt DW625 arisen from the dead.

[Steve Blackdog]

It is very fitting that this Easter weekend I finally restored my eBay basket case router to life.

It now has new bearings, brushes, amature, field, capacitor and hours of my life.

It also has a new serial number and is officially a type 6 and no longer a type 4.

Those of you who remember my post when I bought it will remember I paid an 'adventurous' price considering it was listed as not working.

I reckon that with Axminster's 10% off sale, I could have bought a new one for less!!!

But as Churchill said "if you find yourself walking through Hell, keep walking".

But at least I now know how to rebuild a router

So lessons learnt:

People fib on eBay! Oh yes. This said "I'm listing it as 'not working' because it needs cleaning up. It has been in my father in law's shed for a number of years and he recently passed away. I have switched it on and it seems to run well, but I'm no expert"

The truth is it had been used in the trade for 15 years and was buggered. It had clearly been cheaply repaired so many times its owner decided it was time for a replacement.

The seller was cleverly playing the innocent!!

Having laid out the best part of a ton for the blighter I asked for advice when I realised it was running out of true. The consensus was "pass it on". But a brave poster suggested repair!

I believe that truth and integrity are essential values for us all, so to pass it on would have meant being truthful and saying it was a crock of ****. And it would have fetched pennies.

So I decided to keep walking and eventually today I switched it on and it is as good as new!!

Thanks to those that helped me on my journey. Big thanks to Kirk from over the water. Kirk, until you gave me the answer to tapping the new bearings in, I was ready to throw it in the bin.

And huge huge thanks to Peter on the technical service team at Miles Machine Tools. He talked me through many a procedure and had no concern about selling me anything.

Miles Machine Tools are absolute saints.

Thank you all.

Happy Easter.

In Friendship

Steve

 

[jimi43]

DeWalts (old ones), Makita, ELUs and other such professional machines are meant to be serviced which is why they sell the spare parts.

The steps that you should have taken when you received the router and realised that the guy was selling you something "not as advertised" and was clearly more broken than described, should have been through the eBay complaints referral system which works in favour of the buyer in most cases.

If you chose not to and paid for the parts to repair it you may have ended up paying for the equivalent of a new one but just think what it would have cost to train you as a router engineer to be as expert as you are now...you can't take away that knowledge and all your future routers will be easily fixed by you.

I personally think that you gained by this experience in many ways and salute you for leaving the Valley of Death so successfully. Winnie would have been proud of your Dunkirk spirit!!!

Cheers mate and BRAVO! =D> =D>

Jimi

 

[kirkpoore1]

Good job Steve. I'm glad I could be of help. Now, when the next guy comes along and needs to fix a router, you'll be "The Man."

Kirk