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Anyway, I went to Screwfix earlier before they closed and managed to get a replacement ordered. Hopefully arriving tomorrow. I'll make sure I put the router bit in before tightening anything up next time. Will update tomorrow how I get on. A lesson was learnt this day, the hard way 😅.

It does indeed come with 12mm and 1/2 inch and I already thought I may have mixed them up, but I already double checked. You can see from my photos that I'm using the 1/2 inch nut and I already used my calipers to verify that I was using the larger collet (i.e. the 1/2 inch one). The collet I...

Thanks for all the replies everyone. You may well be right about this @dizjasta, if I was meant to have the router bit shank in the collet before screwing the collet nut onto the router, then I don't think I did that. Extra photos attached showing that the collet and nut are separate and kind...

I recently bought myself a Triton TRA001 as I had a few Screwfix vouchers. This is my first router so I'm not sure what I'm about to describe is a defect or my own ignorance. Basically, the problem is, I have a 1/2 inch collect and a 1/2 inch router bit but the router bit won't fit in the...