I am building a new router table; all done except an enclosure around the router.
I put a Milwaukee 5625 in and found it had terrible run out.
I posted here about it and all agreed the router must be defective.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...-5625-shudders
I returned it and Toolup.com sent me a replacement. It is exactly the same as the old one. I tested three router bits and all three show runout proportionate to their length.
Assuming all Milwaukee routers don't have the same defect, and further assuming Toolup.com didn't repackage my router and send it back to me (they wouldn't do that, would they?) then I must be doing something wrong.
I installed a router bit with a bearing on the end. I clamped a piece of steel to the table and put a magnetic based dial indicator on the steel. Putting it up against the bearing I turned the router bit. The dial went back and forth.
I did that with three bits and got movement proportionate to their length.
To me that indicates that either the collet or the router itself has run out. But it did exactly the same thing with the first and second router/collets.
I don't see what I could be doing wrong. If the table or the lift was out of square, then the bit would just be tilted; it wouldn't show runout.
So, what do you think?