A very good question Ken. I will take a plate from my 690 to the store and compare it. I know you can drop a 890 series motor into a 690 series base so I would think they are the same size. After reading the complaints on Amazon's web site it seems there are many quality control issues with the 890 series. Reports of the height adjustment rack breaking in half, the screws that hold it to the case snapping off flush to the case, base plate problems and in one case smoke after only an hours use. I realize some people are dishonest and would claim a defect like the broken screws when in truth the reason the screws failed was because they dropped the router. But there are more problem reports than I would of imagined for what has always been a top quality brand.
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