I gave up trying to flatten the battery in my test after I convinced myself that it would deliver several days worth of work in my shop. The manual suggests a fully charged 5.0 Ah battery will cut 76m of 9.5mm round-over in red oak. I tested the tool with a 5.0 Ah battery which I’ll confess looked awkwardly top heavy to my eyes but was surprisingly balanced even when routing boards on edge. The tool accepts both 6.35mm and 6mm collets and a range of batteries up to 12 Ah. The Milwaukee tool fits within the M18 Fuel range of power tools, all powered by the lithium-ion battery range for which this manufacturer has become known. Milwaukee FTR-0 trimmer and standard accessories First, the integrated LED lighting on modern tools like these is something my ageing eyesight was keen to explore and second, moving to cordless would see an end to the occasional trapped power cord which had an annoying knack of catching just short of the end of a moulding run. Having relied on a trusted Porter Cable trimmer for longer than I can remember, I was particularly eager to test the M18- FTR-0 trim router from Milwaukee for two reasons. Over the last decade or so, these small hand held routers have become indispensable for a huge variety of tasks in the modern workshop, from running a quick consistent chamfer to cleaning out dovetails and roughing out waste on relief carvings. There was a time when the laminate trimmer was nothing more than that, destined for a life of trimming kitchen benchtops.
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