It's done, it's up and running. At least it turned on and ran smoothly. I'm too tired to try a piece of wood in it tonight. We started at 6:00 pm and had the table on the base by 6:30. My crew left (we're all on call, so no beer drinking), then I spent until midnight putting it together and cleaning the gunk off. Assembly is actually not difficult, it's the cleaning of the copious amount of cosmoline it comes coated with that took so much time. Glad I had a large supply of fake credit cards to scrape it with. Then spraying and wiping Zep Citrus Degreaser. But it's clean now!
Bits of advice: Download the manual from the Grizzly site. The one that comes with it is screwed up. The assembly sequence starts with putting the lift wheel on the base and jumps to putting the table on the base. There are a couple of correction sheets with the manual, but they still lack all the information. The online version is the one to follow. Remove both the front and rear panels when putting the table on the base. Two of the required eight bolts are hidden behind the dust chute and the only way to reach them is via the front. Makes it easier when adjusting the motor tension, too. And the drive pulleys and belt are not the V-belt variety, but are ribbed. Lastly, the fence angle scale needs an additional washer under the mounting tab to allow adjustment for the reading to be correct. Not the little plastic indicator, but the scale itself. Knives were set correctly, and the parallelism was set. The stops for the fence did require adjustment, however. I also found a bit of a burr on the aluminum inserts around the blades that took a little fine filing to remove. Nothing serious, but enough that it might have left a scratch
Did I mention lots of gunk?? Have plenty of rags and paper towels! You'll smell like you spent the day in an armory when you're done.
I treated it to a nice rubdown with Boeshield T-9 before I quit and gave it a brand new gurney cover to sleep under. Tomorrow, it's truth or dare time to see how it really works.
