Router with ER11 Collet? Say what?!

Interesting story for you:

We’ve been working with our router vendor on this for about a year. They didn’t know how to make it, so we had to get their CAD files and then @Luke redrew everything to make it ER-11 compatible. We have a person working for us in Hong Kong to help with local vendors and this took a lot of effort on his part. They didn’t understand ER-11 and they didn’t want to share CAD files.

Luke got the design done and Bryan, our local guy, worked to get samples made, because we’re not going to order production quantities on their word. They were very good. We went to order them, and the router vendor gave us an absurd lead time. I have no idea on the current delivery time, but they’ll arrive eventually.

What shocked us was this other Er-11 router coming out. We ordered one, and were surprised to see that it’s very likely from the same vendor. They sold our product to someone else before it was sold to us.

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