Well, I guess I messed up. The only thing that I can think of is that I was tightening the nut a bit too much? It never felt like I was. Considering the routER11's have been sold out for about 100 years, I am pretty bummed out. I have orders that I will not be able to complete on my 1515 until I get a replacement. Does anybody have any tips? Maybe a thread chaser? Replacement parts? (I haven't been able to find anything.) I'm going to have to buy a replacement, but I'd like to get these orders finished as quick as I can.
wow you must be strong? Did you try a different nut? Can go to home depot and get a Makita to finish your orders.
I never felt like I was putting the squeeze on it, maybe something else happened, who knows. I have ordered a replacement that's coming soon. As far as trying another nut, I don't have one, but it is pretty clear that the threads on the router itself are trashed.
are you putting the collet into the nut before putting the bit into the collet and then only screwing the nut+collet+bit on the shaft? someone else showed pictures of trashed threads and it turned out they were not putting the collet into the nut first.
Good point, this is why with any ER should have a nut for each collet you use, they are not expensive.
I always have the collet secured in the nut and loosely threaded onto the shaft before inserting my bit and tightening. This is the way I'm used to doing it. Although, I am used to tightening er-32/40 on the bigger machines at my day job. Those machines all have ATC's with tool holder that have to be pretty tight. That said, I never cranked the er-11 too tight. Live and learn I guess.
