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I am setting up a garage DIY shop. I was at a local pawn shop and they had a new in the box DW618PKB router kit for $130 with tax. Since I purchased it I been looking online and there seems to be a lot of issues with the speed control magnet failing especially if the router is mounted in a table. Did I make a bad purchase? I would like to make a router table and mount this router in it but now I am having second thoughts. Does anyone have experience with this router mounted in a router table?

The DW618PKB' plunge base would be better suited for the table than it's fixed base.
1. You can suck dust below table very well.
2. You can even adjust height from above the table if you use a HEAP adapter plate like

Aluminium Router Table Insert Plate Table for Woodworking Benches Router Plate Wood Tools Milling Trimming Machine with Rings (Red 13inches) - - Amazon.com

Aluminium Router Table Insert Plate Table for Woodworking Benches Router Plate Wood Tools Milling Trimming Machine with Rings (Red 13inches) - - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

This adapter plate comes with a LONG STAINLESS SCREW + nuts so that you can adapt any plunge base router to adjust height from above the table.

MUCH CHEAPER and MORE ROBUST than the Bosch RA1165 SOLUTION and many "router lifts"

 

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And now Dewalt has bought out Porter Cable. What's this world coming to?

Dewalt and Porta Cable both had both been subsidiaries of B&D (Now Stanley-Black and Decker) so it is a reorganization rather than Dewalt buying Porter Cable.
Since 2007(?) B&D already wanted Porter Cable to gradually stop making routers & other power tools and concentrate on Porta Cable's more profitable Pneumatic TOOLs business.

 

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Porter Cable is gone either way. The people with more money got rid of the better product. I think the point of my comment cannot be refuted. From now on it's Triton in my shop.

Australian GMC seller of cheap powertools (all made in China) bought Triton in 2006. Then GMC went bankrupt and now Triton is British owned.