Where's the cheapest place to buy a Kress 1050?

[Jonathan]

Sorry I was ambiguous. The 25mm length of the extension piece that was in the router is 8mm, and that's what bent. The rest of the bar was 12.7mm. It wasn't centrifugal force...what happened was the router stalled and started only spinning at a few rps whilst gantry was still moving at cutting speed. That meant the cutter holder was basically bent by the X axis motors against the face of the MDF it was cutting ... naturally it bent at the weakst point. I hit the stop buttons pretty quickly, but evidently not quick enough. I underestimated how much extra force it put on the cutter having it 50mm further out.

I've used the same 'extender' in the milling machine lots of times before, admittedly at a lower rpm - yet similar feedrate so probably similar cutting force. If it wasn't for the router stalling I think it would have been fine - I wonder why the router did stall? It had only been going about 30 seconds. I've dismantled the router and checked the brushes/bearings and they all seem fine.

I was wearing saftey glasses and ear defenders - got the latter for Christmas! I agree that one should be conscious of saftey with these things (hence my recent thread about dust extraction!)...I once witnessed someone at school on a lathe (identical model to yours incidentally) put a long piece of 1" steel tube in the chuck to face the end, but didn't support the other end. As you say, centrifugal force took over and bent the steel tube to 90degrees, and smashed the cover off the lathe headstock that protects the autofeed gears shearing a couple of M10 (ish) bolts in the process. The teacher was NOT happy! We had health and saftey in the workshop drummed in to us since the very beginning - using lathe when I was 12.

'accident waiting to happen.'
Is there something else I've said that makes you say that?

My rant over...