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Saturday, December 3, 2011

How to replace the bearings in a Porter Cable 7518 router

Our victim
If you're like me, you use your router a lot.  Unfortunately, most recently made routers are not of the quality that they once were, and sooner or later, there is a pretty good chance that your router is going to start making the creepy rattling noise as it runs that signals the death of one of the bearings guiding the spindle.  These bearings are not made as well as they once were, as evidenced by the failure in my PC 7518 Router.  Though I do have to admit that I've put it through some pretty heavy use.  So I knew that sooner or later, I would need to replace the bearings.  Unfortunately, it was somewhat sooner than later.
So this is how we do that.