It’s been a while.
For the whole story see:
That said, as nice as they are, they have a pretty limited appeal:
- nice for folks who have a Nomad or other CNC which also has an ER-11 collet system — share collets and tools
- helpful for folks who use odd-ball sizes of tooling, although one can get most sizes from: https://elairecorp.com/makitaroutercollets.html (the standard Carbide Compact Router uses the same collets as the Makita RT0701/0700)
- it’s nice to have a collet system which draws the collet out w/ the nut — but the flip side of that is it increases the expense quite a bit if one gets one nut for each collet.