Title says it all. I set up a longer (around 3 hour cut at 18000 rpm) and when I came into my garage the router was dead and didn’t respond to multiple outlets and I confirmed it wasn’t the circuit breakers in my house. Is my router permanently dead or is there something I can do to get it running again? Any advice or similar experiences would be appreciated.
Worth mentioning it got up to 110 F today where I live and about the same in my garage.
Which router do you have. First check your brushes. It is very common for t he C3D router and/or Makita routers to have their brushes get too short and the router will not power up.
Just unplug your router and take the brush caps off and pull the brushes out and replace them. The brushes may look long enough but they are the most likely issue. If you bought the C3D router it came with spare brushes. If you dont have any then get some.
If you have a Makita/C3D router then you can get another one relatively cheap on Amazon and so on. I think Home Depot sells Makita but I know Lowes does not.
It is possible that your router is broken but before anything spin the shaft and if it moves check the brushes. If the router is bound up then you can buy a replacement armature with the bearings already pressed on. The Makita kit also fits the C3D router because the C3D router is a clone of the Makita 7** routers.
As mentioned further up when you pull the brushes out they may look plenty long but the issue is there is wire that runs down the center of the spring and that wire gets extended only so far and the brush no longer contacs the armature and so the router does not run.
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