Porter Cable 690LR Router for $99!!!!

Do you have details on the rebate? I can only find reference to one that expired 31 January 2009.

Thanks.
-Rich

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

sounds good!....i’ll be pending to order one

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

Elsewhere you can buy the Porter Cable 690LR for $105.00 without the hassle of a rebate. This is an excellent router and you can’t beat the price!

-- Don, Utah, www.toolsandmachinery.com

This is great!! Where will I be able to find the ad on the 4th?

Edit: Never mind. I just took a closer look at the original post

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

This is a great router. I have it and use it as my hand held router.

$99 is hard to beat. I picked one up used for $50 but I may pick up another if I can find a deal on the plunge base.

-- "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit." ---Aristotle

Hi would they send to Scotland??do you think??Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

@JimmyNate

I could be wrong, but I thought I saw a plunge base for this router on ebay reecntly. Can’t say if its still available, but it couldn’t hurt to check.

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

Anyone here have a problem with the fact that this tool is now made 8 miles SOUTH of Brownsville, Texas and no longer in Jackson, TN ?? And the parts are imported from _ ?

Great deal indeed fior 99 bucks.

-- http://www.federalsaw.com

Apparently not….

-- http://www.federalsaw.com

federalsaw, i’m not sure whats imported and whats not imported now adays. I try to buy the most american products I can. Although I do have a bosch router, jig saw, and a couple grinders. Bosch assembles there products in mt. prospect, illinios. I’ve contemplated buying grizzly, but I’ve opted to get delta, jet, dewalt, porter-cable or milwaukee, instead.

They probably moved facilities now that black & decker, dewalt, porter cable, delta are all now owned buy the same parent company. I’m not a big fan of the this. The more mergers means there are less companies competing against each other; this could mean there a chance that price might go down, but so might the quality. I hope it doesn’t happen, but it could.

-- Sean Buffalo, New York

Sean, I’ll never, EVER give grief to anybody on how they spend their money. None of my business. I will however point out what I feel to be the lunacy in our world as it relates to tools and where they are made.

As I have a vast collection of Porter-Cable/Rockwell tools, and am a distributor, the fact that several years ago Black & Decker of all companies bought them and bean counters, who have NEVER held a power tool in their hands in their life started with the “lets make these tools with slave labor” crap “as cheaply as possible…quite frankly pisses me off.

That’s all…....

-- http://www.federalsaw.com

I personally am not impressed with the plunge base. Don’t get me wrong, it works, but if you do a lot of plunge work, buck up and get the dedicated plunge. It is a hassle to change back and forth and the dedicated plunge is a lot more user friendly,

great deal on the router though. I have 6, wife would make me sleep in the shop if I bought another. Guess that wouldn’t be so bad now would it? It is heated.