Brent Ring
05-10-2011, 4:37 PM
All,
Well, the gloating has begun, but I am afraid it will be a long, slow gloat. It has taken me a couple of weeks to get everything set up. First of all let me explain that Grizzly did a great job of communicating when the saw would arrive. You can see the pics here at this link.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?163772-Preliminary-Gloat-The-Order-Has-Been-Placed!-Sliding-Table-Saw-Here-I-come!&highlight=
I was called and told what day I should be available. I worked from home that day and the driver called and gave me a good 1 hour window of when he would arrive, and he was right on schedule.
I got both the saw and the package containing the sliding table unit into the garage. I suggest paying for liftgate service. I only have to lift the saw once that way (Onto the mobile base). I noticed some damage on the sliding table box, which I photographed and noted with the driver. We also opened the box and noticed that the rip fence had a small dent. Later I noticed that the slider carriage also had a small location that had been dented. Grizzly customer support took my call and agreed to send out the replacement parts. Those arrived by truck today, in a heavy wooden crate and appear to have no damage. It should be noted that while there was some damage to the sliding carriage, it did not affect its ability to be used. And it cut perfectly out of the box.
I took about 30 mins to uncrate the saw itself. I built the mobile base first, (Using Grizzly's base, model number G7315Z, which is a Shop Fox base). I then disassembled the rest of the crate, and removed all of the separate boxes that were in the saw crate itself.
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As you can see I had to remove the shipping screws that held the base in place. After inventorying parts with my father until my son came home, we got everything ready to then move it to the mobile base. When my son arrived, using the red shipping bolts in the cast iron table, that were in place for this process, and the other two bolts that the sliding carriage would rest on, had two of us on the motor side and one in front and we did the lift/slide onto the mobile base. You can see in the photos below the direction we lifted to, and then once on the base, I rotated it 90 degrees counterclockwise to prepare to install the sliding table.
194240194243
More to come....
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/images/misc/pencil.png
Well, the gloating has begun, but I am afraid it will be a long, slow gloat. It has taken me a couple of weeks to get everything set up. First of all let me explain that Grizzly did a great job of communicating when the saw would arrive. You can see the pics here at this link.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?163772-Preliminary-Gloat-The-Order-Has-Been-Placed!-Sliding-Table-Saw-Here-I-come!&highlight=
I was called and told what day I should be available. I worked from home that day and the driver called and gave me a good 1 hour window of when he would arrive, and he was right on schedule.
I got both the saw and the package containing the sliding table unit into the garage. I suggest paying for liftgate service. I only have to lift the saw once that way (Onto the mobile base). I noticed some damage on the sliding table box, which I photographed and noted with the driver. We also opened the box and noticed that the rip fence had a small dent. Later I noticed that the slider carriage also had a small location that had been dented. Grizzly customer support took my call and agreed to send out the replacement parts. Those arrived by truck today, in a heavy wooden crate and appear to have no damage. It should be noted that while there was some damage to the sliding carriage, it did not affect its ability to be used. And it cut perfectly out of the box.
I took about 30 mins to uncrate the saw itself. I built the mobile base first, (Using Grizzly's base, model number G7315Z, which is a Shop Fox base). I then disassembled the rest of the crate, and removed all of the separate boxes that were in the saw crate itself.
194241194242194246
As you can see I had to remove the shipping screws that held the base in place. After inventorying parts with my father until my son came home, we got everything ready to then move it to the mobile base. When my son arrived, using the red shipping bolts in the cast iron table, that were in place for this process, and the other two bolts that the sliding carriage would rest on, had two of us on the motor side and one in front and we did the lift/slide onto the mobile base. You can see in the photos below the direction we lifted to, and then once on the base, I rotated it 90 degrees counterclockwise to prepare to install the sliding table.
194240194243
More to come....
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/images/misc/pencil.png