Thanks for all the advice

[Carl Fox]

I started a thread 'which to get next?' Jointer, BS, or Planer.

From all the wonderful advice from you good peeps I decided to go with a jointer first, then a planer, finally a BS.

Guess what showed up on craigslist? An 8" Grizzly (woot) jointer with a 220v 3HP motor.

His old owner assures me it's in very good condition and the knives are good. He is throwing in something called a Magna Set as well.

It will be home on Saturday.

How do I set up a 220v circuit?

Any tips on how to get the most from this beast?



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[Brad Noble]

Any tips on how to get the most from this beast?


Uh ..... plug it in, turn it on and lay the wood to it?


:D :D :D :D :D :o :o :o :o :o

couldn't resist, sorry.

Brad

[Ben Cadotte]

Go get some 10-3 with ground romex from a borg. A 30 amp breaker, a single gang box, and socket to match the plug on the machine. Its fairly simple to wire yourself. 2 hot wires to the breaker, a ground, and neutral wire. If you have not done or are not comfortable with wiring might want to get a pro to do it.

As for the machine. Give the bed and fence a nice coat of paste wax and feed it some wood. Might want to check the table heights, they may have moved during transport / moving around. Outfeed table flush to just a tinest hair below cutter head height, and infeed to a nice but not so agressive cut 1/32" maybe. Infeed side not so important as having the outfeed set properly.

[Mike Heidrick]

Can't wait to hear how you like using it!!

Congrats.

[jason lambert]

ck how many amps it draws My guess is you can get away with a 20 amp breaker, which is 12/3 Alot cheaper than 10/3. Although running bigger never hurts.