Reddit reviews PORTER-CABLE Lock Mortiser, 1-1/2-HP (513)
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11 Amp, 27,500 rpm motor producing 1-3/4 Peak hpQuickly and accurately cuts mortises for box locksParticularly useful in entry door lock installationsCuts mortises up to 7-inch long, 1-1/4-inch wide and 4-3/4-inch deep11 Amp, 27,500 rpm motor producing 1-3/4 Peak hpQuickly and accurately cuts mortises for box locksParticularly useful in entry door lock installationsCuts mortises up to 7-inch long, 1-1/4-inch wide and 4-3/4-inch deepAccommodates doors thicknesses of up to 4-1/2-inch; Simple to set-up and locate to door
>Also, if there are TWO doors in a highly congested entrance/exit and only one door is open, OPEN THE OTHER FUCKING DOOR
As a locksmith, this one drives me insane. I can be working on one of six doors on the front of a building, tools spread around me, ladder in the way, lock parts everywhere, sometimes even a strip of CAUTION tape across the doorway, and where do people try to go through? One of the five unobstructed doors available? No, they hopscotch over my work area because they see a way to get outside without pushing a door open. Even if I prop one of the other doors open, I still get about 1 in 5 people that try to duck through the doorway I'm working in. Fucking insane! My favorite example was a door at a school, where I was using a 1.5HP Porter Cable mortiser to install a lock in. So I'm there with hearing protection and safety glasses operating a 90db power tool that's shooting a rooster tail of sawdust 15 feet and a bloody teacher ducks under the CAUTION - DO NOT ENTER tape to go through. I shut off the machine and said "HEY! Can't you read?" His reply? "I thought that only applied to students." No, fuckwit, power tools will hurt teachers too.
Dude, ask a Door guy about the tools he has, and or needs still. Take every trade and their tools, that's what the door guy needs. And specialty shit like a "lock mostiser" (we call it a mortise jig). I'm hoping when my dad retires he lets me have his. No fucking way am I buying one for myself. My company better bite that bullet.