Just flushed $150 on a cheap dado stack from an online closeout sale

It wobbled so bad on a job in Seattle last Tuesday that I had to scrap the whole bookshelf project, has anyone else had luck with used router bits or should I just bite the bullet on new ones?

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phoenix_martin401d ago

Man that sucks about the bookshelf... I dropped $120 on a used Freud set from a pawn shop in Portland and it worked fine for a while but then the bearings started screeching on a plywood job. Cheap bits just arent worth it in my book, they get dull fast and leave burn marks. New Whiteside stuff has been solid for me, no wobble and cuts clean every time. Honestly just save up and buy quality once instead of wasting time and wood on junk.

jake7471d ago

Totally agree about the bearings, that's the part that always fails first.

val_shah1d ago

You said "cheap bits just arent worth it in my book" and that is EXACTLY the lesson I keep having to learn the HARD way. The wobbly dado stack I got wasn't even from a pawn shop, it was from some online surplus place and the arbor hole was clearly machined wrong. Here is what I want to know though - when you bought that used Freud set, did you check the runout with a dial indicator before you even mounted it, or did you just spin it up and hope for the best? Because I think that's the real difference between a gamble and a calculated buy on used bits.