I have an old type 1. Probably the best version of it you can get, unless you get an old Elu. Still going strong with original bearings and brushes, purchased in 1993.
The speed controller part you prized off comes loose if you use the thing inverted on a router table. I have a 625 and a trend T10 which are very similar machines. Both I glued the speed controller down. The trend one lives on my router table as a second hand buy. Both powerful machines with no trouble bar the speed control issue
That poor router looks like it's been battered to fu*K. As soon as these Routers went from Elu to Dewalt the quality went to rat-shit really quickly & just got worse as the versions went on. The Dewalt version of the Elu 96E was absolute garbage.
These routers got horrendously cheap by the type 7 as I had one from a friend to look at who was a hobbyist and had only used it intermittently for a little over a year, It had a bent armature and was out of warranty so I took it apart. Between the type 6 and type 7 Dewalt had changed the top bearing from a 6201 to a 608, quite the downgrade. With a new armature costing about £120 it wasn't worth repairing.
@@James-dv1df Yes, they were originally an Elu design from the '80s so it tells how good of a design it was that it's lasted so long, I think it's only very recently that DeWalt have stopped producing the model. DeWalt under Black & Decker bought out Elu in 1994 but kept the Elu name for a short time, but moved the manufacturing base for the Routers from Switzerland to Italy (they can be differentiated by the Swiss machine having orange controls, and the Italian ones having blue ones) which is when things started to go downhill quality-wise, but not so drastically as the later DeWalt ones.
I dont know. Everytime something is too easy or too good it does mean something going to happen soon 😅 Years working made me have a saying "Always f*cking something", when things dont go the way they should.
@@deandohertygreaser thank you so much 👍 It’s mostly disassembled now , just waiting for a 2 leg puller to arrive to get the bearings out , my 3 leg puller won’t do it , thanks for the video . Lifesaver 👍
Watching your videos I can see that Dewalts are the most difficult to work on and least service friendly. Great job. PS: Go get a set of impact cap screwdrivers, it pains me to see these poor electrical screwdrivers get hammered :)
