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Re: ShopBot Desktop router up for the challenge?

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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
Are most any spindles with these specs from ebay or Amazon worth the purchase? I'm not sure if spindles are something where anything you get with these specs will do the job, or if you could be causing yourself serious pain by going with a knock off.
Is there anything aside from those specs that I should keep an eye out for? Good/bad manufacturers?
My best suggestions would be to not buy the cheapest one and read their product description thoroughly to see if anything is lacking or off, read the reviews. But we are buying these to be run periodically on our machines, we are not running them every day all day to make money with them. So while they might not be on the same level of quality that a true industrial version would be at, that degree of quality would be wasted on our application. And when you think of it, it's just bearings, motor windings, and a water cooling channel in a motor body, stuff that Chinese manufacturers have down well already.
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