A friend gave me not one, but two of these routers for free. I knew they were bottom line tools, but I'd like to figure out a way to use them, but I cannot.
The problem is the base which is really not engineered to accept a sub base, you know, with four tapped threaded holes to accept a 8/32 machine screws. The existing sub base is glued in place. I cannot for the life of me see a way to attach a 1/4" acrylic sub base, so it is useless for mortises and other such functions. Even finding an adapter for a Porter Cable guide bushing is a bit of project.
I have a half dozen other top of the line routers, so this is no sweat, but before putting this POS on Craigslist for $20, I thought I would ask the wisdom pool here.
My only idea is pry off the thin glue applied sub base and drill holes in the base and tap them with a tap & die set up, and that is way more work than I want to devote to these routers.
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