DEWALT DW670 7/8 HP Fixed Base Laminate Trim Router

by DEWALT

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DEWALT DW670 7/8 HP Fixed Base Laminate Trim Router

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 7.1 x 4.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00002232G
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: DW670
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,661 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good product......shame about the service!, January 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: DEWALT DW670 7/8 HP Fixed Base Laminate Trim Router (Tools & Home Improvement)

When I asked to look at Laminate Trimmers at my local tool shop, the Dewalt stood out immediatly as a superior product. No crappy plastic here. The buisness end of the motor has a machined aluminium end that is a perfect fit where it locates in the aluminium base, & it locks in place with a lever. Height adjustment is by a micro adjustable dial that should make it real easy to get an exact setting, another trick feature is the button you push in to lock the rotation of the shaft for bit changing. Add to this a 600watt motor & a range of optional bases for any job & you couldn't go wrong......or could you? As it turns out, the marketing department at Dewalt decided not to include a template guide in the Australian model (my country) & the Dewalt people here found it to hard to deal with. In frustration I called the U.S. office & managed to get the girl at the switchboard of the Baltimore head office to put me through to a senior person in marketing, I was assured all would be taken care of...5 days later I've heard nothing & don't expect to. I'm going back to the tool store today to reluctantly exchange the Dewalt for a Makita....lots of hours & a fortune in long distance calls, all for a disk of metal that wouldn't cost more than 5 cents to make & should be included. If your willing to take the risk that you wont need to call upon Dewalts pathetic service, it's probably a good buy.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This trimmer suffers from several critical defects, January 18, 2005

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Ilo O. Kratins "cabinet pro" (Oakland, Ca, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEWALT DW670 7/8 HP Fixed Base Laminate Trim Router (Tools & Home Improvement)

This trimmer suffers from several critical defects:
The depth adjustment is difficult to use and worse loosens often during use unless you tighten the lock knob with a tool instead of your hands
The base doesn't sit at a reliable ninety degrees so one side of the router trims to a different depth than the other
The collet has an on-board lock that grabs the motor leaving you with no leverage to loosen it, i.e. you have just one wrench and holding the motor with one hand while turning the wrench with the other after a 30,000 rpm motor has tightend the collet isn't fun.
Not ready for prime time.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Tool - A little Big, January 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: DEWALT DW670 7/8 HP Fixed Base Laminate Trim Router (Tools & Home Improvement)

I am a dyed in the wool DeWalt user. I have over four-thousnad dollars worth of DeWalt hand tools and accessories and there is a reason for that. I do a lot of custom carpenter work in the Denver-metro area, and I have found that not only are DeWalt tools designed and constructed to hold up under demanding use but when things go wrong, which they sometimes do, the local service center is right there to get me back on the job.

When the laminate trimmer came out I was in the market for a new tool and it was pretty much a no-brainer that I would give it a try. It runs very smooth, and is well balanced. The plate height adjustment is a simple asssembly and works pretty well. I guess the only drawback I found was that of the weight and size. Although it was not extreme, I felt that the size and weight brought it in just under a five star rating, but still a very good tool.

If I had to replace it, it would be with the same tool.