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I agree with Niall. I'd also add that it's probably not a tool any novice should use, the potential for big catches and scary moments...

I believe it might well be a tool for getting into the bottom of bowls. Very much replaced now by the small round carbide tools one gets...

That's not as straightforward as you might think. The default jaw carriers take Versachuck's own jaws, but are also compatible with...

Cheers Rhossydd, just picked up this one on ebay.

The good ones are in demand and don't often appear secondhand, but set up a search with notifications and one will eventually turn up.

I've never had a jaw come loose on my Versachuck in ten years. It shouldn't be possible if you're using the chuck correctly; Make sure...

+1 for what Rhossyd says. Mine comprises a suitable nut welded into a tube salvaged from a 1938 Atco mower, topped with the knob used to...

No great magic in that. You can make your own with a length of pipe and a nut soldered on the end and any old knob on the other end.

And that 40 yr old elu, in good nick, is better than a brand new dewalt dw625.

You're lucky to have inherited such a great bit of kit. Although such a heavy, powerful beast will be quite a handful to learn routing...

That's a jump, novice is given an old router and advised to by a spindle moulder, also worth getting three phase installed....

Why do you want a table ? What tasks are you going to do that are better done with a router in a table than learning how to use one of...

I suspect you will probably need to return the machine for a replacement to get a machine to operate as it should. I located the...

Surely they are meant to be parallel, with the in feed slightly lower.

Aye, but who's ever actually used a paper weight for weighing paper down?! It's fair to say I've spent much of my life working with bits...