Yesterday I was able to do some unpacking (today is garbage day) and prepared for getting the saw down off the two pallets it arrived on. One from the factory and another underneath added by the trucker. But hey, 500 pounds for an old lady is nothing, right?

The shipment arrived about a week ago with several boxes shrink wrapped together. Something had fallen on one corner but everything was so well packed there was no damage to anything other than the box. Included on the pallet was the Compass ST-1500 sliding table.

I first had to get the saw on its mobile base because it had to be moved out of the way so I could roll my old saw over to the neighbor's garage. First step was to get it off that big blue plastic pallet.


Yeah, the garage is packed to the gills. But I got it off the big pallet


The mobile base is a Portamate 3550. All wheels swivel.


After assembling half of it, I slid the saw to the end of the pallet and put the base half under it.


Then I installed the other half of the base


And inched it down. I was able to set it down softly.