Yesterday my Freud 3.25hp router that I have had for 8 years died. So I did some research on routers and have a budget of $350 to get a new router and a new mounting plate for the router table. Being that this router will be only for router table use and not hand held use, and that I really wanted a router with adjustments from the top through the plate, I had few options. So I decided on the Triton 3.25hp plunge router with through the plate and the price for the router and a new plate to fit the router and my table out the door was $330 from Rockler. I got it home and spent a couple of hours getting it all set up in my router table and running some test pieces of wood and it works great.  I really like the top adjustment and it works great. When you raise the router up to change bits it automatically locks the spindle and you use a single wrench. So hopefully the Triton will be as good as the Freud it replaced.

Edited November 25, 20178 yr by Ron Dudelston
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Single wrench bit changing definitely is a plus!

Single wrench bit changing definitely is a plus!

Ditto!  I've been using two wrenches on my PC 7518 for so long that I'm used to it. But thinking of only needing one seems really nice. 

Slipping off the nut  problems reduced by half!