From: brown@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (Robert J. Brown)
Subject: Re: Sears router problem--Am I alone?
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Date: 10 APR 92 10:15:29    

In article <9APR199215425422@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, afmartp@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (PETE MARTIN) writes...
>In article <1992Apr7.101343.1@scivax.stsci.edu>, anderson@scivax.stsci.edu writes...
>>I have a Craftsman 1.5 hp router, 1 year old, whose (#$%@! plastic) fan self-
>>destructed this weekend.  This is only the fourth time I have even used the
>>thing.
>> 
>>Anyone else have this problem?  

  Hmmmmm, Last year I bought the 1 1/2 hp Craftsman when it became too
difficult to borrow power tools from the lab (this is another story
I may get to some day - not owning your own power tools because you
can borrow them from work). Anyway, I used the thing to route a few
dados for a tool cabinet I was building to store my new tool acquisitions
(again - the other story thickens!) and it seemed to work just fine.
Then, about a month later I used it again to round over some boards
and when I turned it on it sounded like all hell had broken loose!
Having only purchased it a month earlier, I took it back to Sears 
and was given a new unit without a fuss. The new unit has taken up
permanant residence in my router table (I now use my Makita 3601B for 
all free-hand work) and has worked fine for dozens of hours. To the
point: I never really thought about what was wrong with the original
unit but after reading your posting, I think that the plastic fan is
most likely what "woofed".
  Someone wrote a follow-up on this stating that they got a new replacement
on an older model and something about Sears being hard up for business.
I'm not suprised that they are having lower sales than before but the
fact that they replaced a piece of motorized equipment that had long
since been out of warranty really does suprize me. I think the standard
warranty on power tools is something like 90 days. I have a friend who showed
me a bin packed full of burned out Craftsman cordless drills in his shop.
I asked him why he kept going back to Sears for the damned things if they
wouldn't stand up to the many hours of abuse he put them through (he is a
boat builder). He just kinda smiled, reached into his pocket for his wallet,
and pulled out his Sears credit card! Jeez, Sears is certainly NOT suffering
from this guy!!:^)

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From: mikea@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (michael_allen)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 12:50:17 PST
Subject: Re: SCROLL SAW PATTERNS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon