Jaymar,
I see your point about the table insert but I got around any flex problems. The Wolfcraft has a fairly well made alu table but the supplied steel plate insert that fits under the table to mount routers that the table is not pre-drilled for was too small for the Axminster router to sit comfortably. I substituted the wolfcraft insert for an 1/2" thick steel plate, welded 10mm nuts to it and re-drilled the table top to take 10mm allen bolts. To overcome the problem of not enough reach by the router collet because of the thickness of the insert plate I'm using a CMT collet extension which works well although I could buy long shanked router bits I might not be able to buy/afford the one I'm specifically wanting :wink:
As for the Axminster router, only had it a few days so it's yet to get a good seeing to, and it will, but the only minus point I can say is the business of having to manually take apart the safety switch, fiddle around with a spring, which off course flew off :roll:
and a piece of metal that you have to turn around in order to be able to 'lock' the on/off button in the on position when using the router in a table. The supplied instructions were clear enough but showed the little piece of metal facing the opposite direction to the direction that the little piece of metal on my router was facing. Took a bit doing to get it right and fit it back onto the router. As long as you don't intend to dis-mount the router and use it off-table then you need only do this proceedure once. That really needs to be a bit simpler in my book. Other than that it's a very well made machine, solid, heavy but well balanced. Everything is easy to setup and a strong spindle lock lever allows for trouble free bit changing, however the spindle lock lever can take a bit of fiddling to get it to engage onto the spindle. These are only minor points in my book and as I get used to the machine they'll probably get easier, I hope :wink:
