But is it me or did the tread lose the plot about half way through
Personally I don't think that thread made it to the 2nd post without loosing it.....but who am I to judge...
Bean... re the Freud..
I have it's predecessor the FT2000E. I've said elsewhere on this forum that it's built like the proverbial brick chithouse, TONS of power (I regularly use mine to raise fielded panels with the Freud panel raising set) variable speed, electronic torque control/constant speed, loads of plunge depth, a good side fence with micro adjust and a dedicated click on/click off power switch that doesn't need tywraps or tape to function in the router table.
Best feature for me was the built in micro adjust for the cut depth (an optional extra with the Trends) that I've found lately is accurate to within 1/10th of a mil... possibly more but that's as far as I'd trust my el cheapo vernier guage. It comes complete with a 30mm guide bush, dust extraction hood that can hold it's own with the best of the rest i.e. far from perfect but good enough to take the fine dust out of the air, though setting this up in conjunction with the guide bush for hand held work is a little fiddly. The base casting is drilled and tapped to take 3 M6 machine screws that secure the tool to a suitable insert for table use.
In the 2+years I've owned mine, the only prob I've had was my causing.... I ran the machine too long in a table without adequate air flow around the motor housing causing a glitch with the speed control electronics; my local agent dealt with this easily by all accounts. Improvements to the air flow in the table have seen off any repetition of the prob.
On the down side.... I'm being honest here.... the only thing I can think of is the overall weight of the thing. Obviously for table use weight isn't a factor, but a recent prolongued (10 hours with few breaks) session hand guiding the tool caused my back to protest violently. That said, it did what I was asking of it effortlessly, performed without fault... I can't ask for more from any tool....
I liked it so much I bought a 2nd one to leave one permanently in the table.
If I'd to do it over... I'll be honest... I'd buy it all over again. Right tool, right accuracy, right price...
nuff said..???
Edited.....cos the author's a numpty....
with my router, I was looking for a replacement and this one looked likely to fit the bill its a Freud fvt2000vce..........any comments :?: 
