It should come with 1/4 and 1/2" collets, take it back from whence it came

It's had mixed reviews, nice idea but not too well made from what I heard.

Phoned Machine Mart and they couldn't explain what had happened. Spoke to their technical guy in Nottingham and he couldn't explain why all their blurbs presented the metric and Imperial collets as virtually the same, each accepting the other.

Anyway, they're sending me a set of 1/4" and 1/2" collets by 1st-class post.

Sorted.

They sent the collets but they don't fit the screw thingy that fits them to the shaft. Tossers should have sent the whole thing. They say they'll get it right next time!

Tried it out on a couple of lengths, putting a moulding onto bead. Works great.

It's actually a more solid machine than it looks with the plastic base.

A far more 'sensible' router table than most because:

a) it (obviously) comes with a router at its heart,

b) the speed can be adjusted from the front panel,

c) the cutter height can be adjusted with the wheel at the side and locked.

I was impressed with it. It's not a spindle moulder, despite what comes up about it on some searches, it's just a very useful machine to have around the workshop if you're looking for a router table.

Well impressed. 8/10.

Actually there's not a lot that can drop off it. I'm not using the spring-loaded thingies that position the material because they're a faff to set up and, frankly, I've never had a need for them, it's not as if the cutters are as vicious as a spindle moulder's and a push-stick seems to give me more control.

The fence tightens easily and stays rigid on feed-in and out - as good as the solid metal one on my main router table in fact.

It just all felt competent, the main pluses being the absence of all the 'issues' on a standard table, the speed and height adjustments both well placed and a bloody good idea.

If I was going to "wait and see" it would be to see if the router itself lasted the course, but then I've only ever had one problem router in the last ten years, and that had only lasted about three and a half years and had a mighty bashing.

Having said which...

Axminster scissor jack underneath it might fix it. Quite cheap.

Wasn't as if it was being asked to do anything out of the ordinary, this was a light cut with a sharp cutter on the softest of woods along a relatively short length, but after four runs the cut was out by 2 mil, luckily the "right" way to avoid scrapping the bars, which were re-cut on the regular table.

The sash ovolo exerts a slight downward pressure on the cutter (and I mean slight) and that, combined with the vibration of the machine, was obviously enough to overcome the pathetic action of the locking mechanism. On the cheapest of routers the locking system has been more effective!

Whether the same thing would happen with cutters exerting just a simple sideways pressure (slotting, edge beading, etc) I don't know, but if that were the case then it severely limits the usefulness of a machine touted as something more than it is.

I'll see what Machine Mart have to say and report back.