Glass half empty: The one wrench bit collet wore out in six months, I have to lay the router on its side and smack the lock with my palm to get it to move making changing bits difficult. The depth lock has worn out so it won't stay locked at the height you set it. The clear plastic see through part fell off so many times its latch wore off so I tossed it (I use safety glasses anyway). The cheap wrench that came with it has started to wear in the center so I have to use a real wrench now to change the bits. The threaded rod for the depth stop keeps coming back out of the baseplate even with loc-tite and the lock nuts have buggered up corners from the wrench starting to slip. I have had to buy some extra wood for the parts that got messed up when the height stop nuts came loose (since I have to use them to hold the height since the stop wore out). Its a tool that is not meant to be used very much, must be mostly to put on a shelf so you can tell the guys at work you have a router and they don't. Glass half full type of person: Despite its problems I've managed to make a few nice things with it. But what I have learned is what to look for when I get the $ to buy a real router and I didn't ruin an expensive accurate one when I dropped it off the bench that time (it broke the speed control knob but it was useless anyway, it cut just as bad at any speed).