Cheap trim router

Today, I picked up this trim router. I don’t know if it’s great, a total piece of garbage or somewhere in between but for $60 Cdn, I thought it was worth taking a chance. BTW, it’s 65mm diameter and comes with what looks like a Makita style 1/4" collet. And for those that don’t recognize the packaging, it’s from Princess Auto, that’s Canada’s analog to Harbor Freight.

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Awesome
I never even thought to check princess auto. Does it have a variable speed ?
I just bought a cheap one off Amazon. It was 100.00 cad.

I wouldn’t have thought to look there either but this was in one of the current flyers. And it has six speeds ranging from 12,000rpm to 30,000rpm.

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BTW, I just double checked the diameter and it fits perfectly into Ryan’s Makita tool mount.

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Well on behalf of the Canada crew thanks for posting haha.
Those Kobalts are unobtaniun here it seems.
Let’s battle till their deaths and see what one lasts longer :slight_smile:

I also noticed one interesting feature that I wasn’t expecting, it comes with two wrenches, one fits the shaft of the router and the other the collet nut but, you don’t have to use both wrenches as it also has a button to lock the shaft.

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I saw that, but I dont need another compact router, lol. It looks a lot like a Makita clone.