All I can say is I am glad all of you brought this to our attention.The Milwaukee M18 Compact Trim Router combines power, speed and accurate depth adjustments to deliver clean accurate cuts in a variety of materials and applications. Before this review I would have passed up the opportunity to look at this router. It should be one you look at when you are shopping for routers. I am just saying this is a great router and a great alternative to the other brands on the market. Now I am not saying it is better than Porter Cable, Bosch, Hitachi or Festool. In the end I have to say this is one killer router. Milwaukee 5616-21 EVS BodyGrip Router Kit It’s a sleeping giant that is pissed it doesn’t get the exposure it should. Now I am not saying this is the best router on the market, but I am saying it is the best router you never heard of. This is one of those routers you just have to get your hands on to try. The one problem I have with trying to explain power tools is the ease of use and how well a tool works. Yes, you can adjust the depth above the router table.Īs with some of the other bigger routers, this will accept both 1/4 and 1/2″ collet bits. If you are a fan of router tables, then you will like how easy it is to adjust the depth while it sits in a table. Adjusting the depth is also very easy, especially compared to some of the other brands we have tested. The micro fine adjust is easy to move within 1/64″. Again, I don’t look at Milwaukee for being a company who makes a killer router. I have to say using the features of this router was a huge surprise to me. With the Bodygrip design, this is pretty easy to control even for someone like me who doesn’t have patience and just wants to rip through large amounts of wood instead of taking a couple passes. I feel it gives me greater control and more accuracy. Now if it was a trim router, then the weight would suck, but considering the type of router, I love it. Picking the router up, it has some weight, 8.8 lbs to be exact. However I do use them and have some experience with them. Okay, I am not going say I am a hard-core router guy who uses a router everyday. Yes, it is a variable speed which has a range of 10,000 to 24,000 rpm. With that in mind Milwaukee designed this router with a feedback motor which monitors the load and maintains the speed under load. One thing serious woodworkers do is go through large amounts of material. This is designed to be used by serious woodworkers. The router we are going to cover is the 5616-21 which is a 13 amp 2-1/4 max hp router.
With that being said, that’s why you don’t hear a lot about their routers. You may be asking why doesn’t Milwaukee focus more on their miter saw and routers? Well Milwaukee wants to leave the woodworking to other companies and Milwaukee wants to focus on their main specialty items such as their cordless line. Now it might take some searching, but yes Milwaukee does sell routers. Well it turns out not only does Milwaukee make a great brushless line, but they make a pretty good router. That’s why when we heard a bunch of you talk about and ask us to review the router, we were a little curious. One word that probably will not come to mind is Router.
I should say what do you think of when you hear the words Milwaukee Tools? You probably think innovation, brushless and a whole lot of other new ideas about an old company.
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Sorry I had to throw that one in since I am a Cubs fan, but I guess I can’t talk since we haven’t won a World Series since 1908. What do you think of when you heard the word Milwaukee? Okay, let me rephrase that because when I hear the word Milwaukee I think cheese, beer, Laverne and Shirley and a sub par baseball team.
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