kress any good?

[Lee Roberts]

Hiya,

A Kress unit is what allot of people start off with, it will do what you want BUT a water cooled spindle can be got for around the same money and would be a better choice imo, the kress units are pretty much in line with a standard router unit, obviously more like a trimmer in looks and shape they also share the same noisiness as a router or trimmer.

The difference in the two is the kress has been designed more specifically, so dose have a better run out and things like that, but again any of the water cooled spindles would be so much better all round, there is also the same type of spindle but in an air cooled version, this dose have a cooling fan at the top so again can be considered noisy in comparison but again I think this would be a better choice over a router/trimmer/kress.

You will also find good local support for the 2.2kw units, we have a thread dedicated to them specifically: http://www.mycncuk.com/showthread.php?t=5814

.Me