Pawn shop find

I decided to shop by a pawn shop in town and see what tools they had. I walked in and there was a nice Bosch router and priced cheap. Should work great in my Bosch router table. I have a little hitachi in it now. How does everyone like their Bosch routers?

Does anyone know what these parts are? My guess is some kind of parts for a router table. They were in the case with the router. The plate is missing off of the fixed base so I’m guessing it was in a table.

Congrats on the new router C Harris! Man once and awhile I stop by our local pawn shops and they never have nothing good :/ and there prices are kinda crazy to. I’m looking into getting a compact router in the near future so that I can up my game this year in wood working, let us know how U like it.

Bigmikez wrote:

Congrats on the new router C Harris! Man once and awhile I stop by our local pawn shops and they never have nothing good :/ and there prices are kinda crazy to. I’m looking into getting a compact router in the near future so that I can up my game this year in wood working, let us know how U like it.

Thanks. They had this one marked down to $70. I couldn’t pass it up.

I’m mounting it in my table now. I like the collets much better already. They seem a lot stronger and you have a separate collet for 1/4″ bits. That’s my biggest complaint with the ridgid. It has an adapter sleeve for 1/4″ bits.

Never bought anything in a pawn shop but “pawn stars” is one of my favorite shows. Next time I’m in Vegas I’m planning to stop by their place. Anyway, looks like a nice find you  have there. What did you pay for it? 

C Harris wrote:

Thanks. They had this one marked down to $70. I couldn’t pass it up.

I’m mounting it in my table now. I like the collets much better already. They seem a lot stronger and you have a separate collet for 1/4″ bits. That’s my biggest complaint with the ridgid. It has an adapter sleeve for 1/4″ bits.

70$ bucks that was a good deal man I have a ridged at home don’t remember the model off the top of my head its big though im hoping to pick up a compact one later down the line.

Bigmikez wrote:

70$ bucks that was a good deal man I have a ridged at home don’t remember the model off the top of my head its big though im hoping to pick up a compact one later down the line.

My Ridgid is a R2901. 2 HP. It does feel large for smaller stuff.

I would like to pick up a small trim router too.

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PROTOOLNUT wrote:

Awesome tool C-Haris! Congrats on your find! I too have the experience of going to pawn shops and either finding nothing good, or finding something they are charging far too much for. It looks like its larger then the other ones, does it also have more power? 🙂

Actually the specs say the Ridgid has the least power @ 2hp. The Bosch and Hitachi are 2 1/4 hp. The Hitachi is by far the smallest.

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Yea, Craiglist and Pawnshops suck around here. The only time you could get a deal is if they bought something they don’t know the value on. The internet kinda kills that as it takes only a second to look it up.

cjcycles wrote:

My Ridgid is a R2901. 2 HP. It does feel large for smaller stuff.

I would like to pick up a small trim router too.

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cjcycles wrote:

Actually the specs say the Ridgid has the least power @ 2hp. The Bosch and Hitachi are 2 1/4 hp. The Hitachi is by far the smallest.

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hey harris you got a heck of deal there man….70 bucks for that kit, man lucky guy 😛

i love that router, so much power and it goes thru the wood like butter. i def need to buy the dust chute kit.

i always leave a mess in my shop when i use it haha

I always shoot them an offer, got some wrenches pretty cheap this way. If they’ve had them a while, they’ll deal. 

JoshH8664 wrote:

I always shoot them an offer, got some wrenches pretty cheap this way. If they’ve had them a while, they’ll deal.

I don’t think they had this one very long. It had a sale tag on it for $70. I was able to get them down to $70 out the door.

I agree it never hurts to ask.

That’s a steal. I have the newer version of the one you bought, but the one you got has been the bar for routers for a long time. I bought my set for around 350. You got a great deal for an excellent router, congrats

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NaluRash wrote:

That’s a steal. I have the newer version of the one you bought, but the one you got has been the bar for routers for a long time. I bought my set for around 350. You got a great deal for an excellent router, congrats

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Thanks. I’m really happy. I posted the ridgid up on eBay and it sold the first day for $100. I’m going to dedicate the Bosch to the router table and use the hitachi for hand held routing.

NaluRash wrote:

That’s a steal. I have the newer version of the one you bought, but the one you got has been the bar for routers for a long time. I bought my set for around 350. You got a great deal for an excellent router, congrats

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which “newer” kit are you talking about? that kit he bought is on the market for a really long time.

madman_us wrote:

which “newer” kit are you talking about? that kit he bought is on the market for a really long time.

 

Bosch MRC23EVS 2.3HP.

 

The older model has Maple handles, which is what C Harris scored.

The Bosch 1617EVS

yours and his are 2 different models 😛

its not an older model

madman_us wrote:

yours and his are 2 different models [emoji14]

its not an older model

Ohhhhhhh….I see. That makes sense haha. But he still scored a really great router.

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yes indeed – that router costs new $219 and sometimes its on sale for $199 or $189

I’m very pleased to have this model. I don’t need the switch in the grip for my router table. Seems like it was a great deal judging from everywhere else I have looked.

I’m considering selling the hitachi also. I’m really liking this Bosch. I might pick up an extra fixed base on eBay for the router table. Doesn’t seem like it will be to hard to remove it when needed.

C Harris wrote:

I’m very pleased to have this model. I don’t need the switch in the grip for my router table. Seems like it was a great deal judging from everywhere else I have looked.

I’m considering selling the hitachi also. I’m really liking this Bosch. I might pick up an extra fixed base on eBay for the router table. Doesn’t seem like it will be to hard to remove it when needed.

Yeah man you got an incredible deal on that thing. I’m glad your enjoying it

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i would have snatched it too 😛 just because haha

one for the router table and one for jobs around the shop