Porter Cable router...spindle lock replacement

This video will show you how to repair/replace the small spindle lock shaft. Mine snapped easily...but it's a pretty simple repair. I believe that it has way too much space at the collet...resulting in too much leverage. This is for the Porter Cable router motor 890.
The newer Pantorouters will have a Bosch router (which I've used) and is smooth, quiet and plenty capable!
Porter Cable router model number: #8902 or router motor #890
www.ereplaceme...
eReplacement Part #: 908596
Wanna see more on this incredible machine? www.pantoroute...
Use my discount code: RAMON
This will give you $200.00 off of the "All in" package!
My website...here you'll find The Original Dock and other products, including my Marquetry Class 101, eBooks, Vice Wedges, plan sales, Zero Clearance Inserts for several Felder and Hammer machines and much more! ramonvaldezfine...
Check out my Instagram page for constant woodworking tips and tricks!: / ramonartful
Join my Patreon for exclusive content! / ramon_valdez
Check out my eBooks here:
Tricks of the Trade Volume 1
ramonvaldezfin...
Tricks of the Trade Volume 2
ramonvaldezfin...

[@chipsummitt2681]

I have the same problem and the part is discontinued but there is a part that looks a little stronger on Amazon. The part you show is discontinued. I hate how manufactures discontinue replacement parts and do not carry service parts. For the short term I ground down a hardened pole barn nail that would fit through the hole so I could tighten the locking nut down. I like the looks of your horizontal router setup.

[@ramonartful]

I’ve had a lot of people say that theirs broke too. I ordered two when I got mine. So far the first one hasn’t broken. The hardened nail is a good idea. I believe I got mine from ereplacementparts.com

[@JeffStenersen-jq3xx]

This is a $250.00 router! Nothing on it should be made that cheap! I have to go to a foreign country to buy a automobile that lasts too

[@tmelcher1]

Same thing happened to me a couple of months ago but I ended up removing the motor from the housing. Wished your video was up because I found next to nothing on how to replace it, other than what I did. Ended up being a good decision because I was able to clean out all the years of caked on dust on the inside. This PC 890 motor lived in my router table but was a bit underpowered. Using it now as a handheld and bought the Spinrite from Woodpeckers for my router table. That thing is a beast! Way more power and spins up like a turbine. The collets are very precision too.
Love your videos, truly unique, keep ‘em coming! I have no idea why you don’t have 300k subscribers!

[@ramonartful]

We’re you able to fix the pin? I’ll have to check out the Spinrite.
Tell your friends about my channel. It’s growing…😬. Thanks a ton.

[@tmelcher1]

@@ramonartful Yup, punched it out from the inside.

[@macsheldon]

Thanks so much for this video, Ramon! I tried unsuccessfully to change one of these and just gave up in favor of two wrenches. Your solution with the vice grips and screwdriver will surely make it easier for others.
Your videos are always so well done and easy to follow along. Thanks again!

[@ramonartful]

Thank you! I wished I had thought of making the video when it happened. But the vice grips did work quite well.

[@jasonh3109]

Yes!!!! Couldn’t agree more!!!! Great stuff man!!!

[@ramonartful]

Alright! Glad you liked. Thanks for watching…tell your friends 😬

[@varmit7286]

I use MuscleChuck - Quick Change assemblies on most of my routers so I have allen wrenches instead of open end wrenches to change bits.

[@ramonartful]

I don’t mind wrenches. For me, it seems easier than small Allen keys. Plus, many of my 18 routers 😬 are Porter Cable so the wrenches interchange. I’m gonna check out MuscleChuck though. Much thanks.

[@zohranbloedjes9770]

I don't like those locks any way although I get it's handy in this case
I jammed my right for arm in to a sharp chamfer bit 3 times because the pin wouldn't ingage correctly I modified a normal wrench to fit in the tight space of course I used the belt sander to modify the wrench

[@ramonartful]

I don’t care for the pin locks either. But this router is hard to get to the lower collet with a wrench because of the dust shroud. If it breaks again, I’ll come up with something better. Thanks for watching buddy…I appreciate you!

[@JeffStenersen-jq3xx]

This is why companies should not hire engineers to come up with a less expense way to make it! That pin is made of a cheap graphite not even steel

[@ramonartful]

I’ve talked with several people at a trade show with that same router…and they’ve had theirs break as well. POF. Point of failure. Or is that POS!? 😆 Oh well. It’s fixed and has been working. Thanks for watching!