[Stick486]

resurrect...

pop the speed control knob off then underneath, in the potted unit, there is a small variable resistor. The common problem with these gadgets is that the wipers don't make good contact with the resistive arc-strip they swipe around. Pressing on them usually diagnoses this - it works or stops working etc. Lo and behold, pressure on the VR may cure the problem. place a couple of tiny rubber washers on the face of the VR so that they come between the circular knob and the VR - padding, if you like. When you press the control knob back on, the VR is now under a little pressure. it may start working again...

plan ''B''...

the small yellow wire is a feedback wire into the controller and doesn't need to be hooked back up to anything. The wire from the switch goes directly to the wire from the motor.

 

[Stick486]

I forgot to mention---the old girl trips the circuit breaker upon startup. the motor spins for a millisecond then the breaker trips. But no smell whatsoever.

@ stick pressing/turning/cursing at the yellow wheel (potentiometer) doesn't help. So I guess plan B is the go-to operation.

After thought!!! How about a shot of contact cleaner on/into the pot to dissolve any carbon. Guess It can't hurt & I am talking contact cleaner here---not canned air.
I remembered all the warning you gave me about that stuff!

She served me well!!

or get you a Bosch..

 

[Stick486]

not the Bosch's...

 

[Stick486]

Autopsy!
....or write a country 'my wife left me and my router died' kinda song.

as long as he doesn't sing it....

 

[Stick486]

Autopsy!
Check the brushes. Open it up and check out the cord with an ohm meter. Cords go bad next to the tool and at the plug end.

he has all of the trouble shooting PDF's...

 

[Stick486]

Hey, Smitty; I couldn't think of "trigger" without coming up with 'unhinged'. )

They go hand in hand...
in Smitty's defense...

No matter what happens or is said, someone will find a way to take it way too seriously...
or make themselves insulted/offended by it...

 

[Stick486]

maybe i'm a male chauvinist too but i didn't see that as derogatory. To me it implied something that was quite dear and important to you just like our wives are to us. Something that would be hard to live without.

agreed..

 

[Stick486]

My original post was done for some levity and to lighten my grief for losing my favorite router. In these politically correct times what pronoun do we associate with our tools? He, She, ??? "IT" just doesn't seem to convey the close relationship, trust, need, we have with them.

smitty

what ever your heart desires...
they're your tools...