I missed some responses along the way.
RyanGi- I am definitely not qualified to go any farther into the inner workings of the router 🤷♀️. Wish I had those skills/knowledge but I don't (at this time anyway!).
Jim - I had called a local shop that does do blade sharpening but they don't do router repairs. You started to talk in another language (😁 what's a rheostat!?). What type of shop would have the testing tools you mentioned?
Nathan - the things I pulled out looked really clean. I struggled getting them back in place so might need to get it out of the table where I have better perspective. Right now there's no benefit of a non-working router in the table anyway.