1st off I want you all to know that I've looked at the forums to try and avoid asking any questions that have been answered 1000 times already. I've fiddled with this thing for several hours over multiple days to no avail. A lesser man would have broken down sobbing by now.
Backstory: I'm of the mindset of buy once cry once. Prior to this I'd never owned a jointer or a planer but considering my youtube and FWW consumption I'm pretty much an expert. Well this beauty popped up on CL for 1800. It does have the mortising table but that wasn't a big factor for me getting it. I was most excited about the space saving and the 13.75" capacity. The guy that had it, bought it off a widowed client (1 of many machines he got). He didn't have use for something so large so it came home with me. This sucker is in my basement now which was quite an adventure in itself. I did take off the tables prior to moving it downstairs.
Issues: So following the advice on this forum I adjusted the outfeed table parallel with the cutter head( no shimming required). Then I moved onto to the infeed table. Their are two bolts on the handle side that are used to adjust that side of the table and the hinge side is adjusted using shims. The hinge that is shimmed is in inline with the bolt further from the cutterhead. So I 1st brought the handle side of the infeed coplaner and level with the outfeed. Then I shimmed the hinge on the infeed to bring that coplaner and level with the outfeed. The issue is the infeed table slopes down on the hinge side as it gets closer to the cutterhead. I don't know how to fix this issue as the hinge side only has that one area that I know of to shim. To get the tables coplaner and at the same level on the infeed side I'm taking off 1/10 of an inch which is way way too much.
Other issue that has me scratching my head: My machine didn't come with the knife adjustment jig nor does the manual say how far the blade should project out. Anyhow I had to take my dremel to the underside of the jointer table to remove a little of the metal so the blade didn't hit. This is obviously out of the ordinary, but I didn't know how else to fix it.
I also checked the planer table to the cutterhead to make sure the cutterhead wasn't shimmed.
I really hope this is me missing something obvious.