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- Nov 11, 2015
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Ordered on 14Nov2015 had UPS trucking at my driveway 20Nov2015 only to have the driver tell me the guys doing the loading did not put it on a pallet and could not get it off the truck. The driver was very appoligetic and just wanted to let me know he would return on Monday. New driver arrived Monday around noon. I was a bit worried he would leave it in the road in front of my house, not so! he pulled it down my driveway and set it in my garage at the spot I had lined out a BIG thanks and a generous tip was in order and received.
Shipping crate had a fist size hole but no vitals were hit lathe was very well secured some items that were packed inside were loose but unharmed.
Having read and watched numerous YouTube and Internet videos about loose hardware was very true, so the first thing was to clean and tighten all hardware then leveled the stand then the lathe. Ran through the setup and run procedures with no problems. Did a chuck runout and found it have a TIR of .005" removed the chuck and cleaned chuck and headstock surfaces and had a TIR of .004. Moved the chuck jaws clockwise rechecked and bang TIR was .0005 I'm happy.
Will be changing all fluids recheck level and do a tail stock alignment check and turn a test bar. I have never operated a lathe so very large learning curve is coming.
Here is my attaboy for Grizzly (Thanks Ron) I was given a retroactive 5% discount after finally seeing the discount code.
Mike
Shipping crate had a fist size hole but no vitals were hit lathe was very well secured some items that were packed inside were loose but unharmed.
Having read and watched numerous YouTube and Internet videos about loose hardware was very true, so the first thing was to clean and tighten all hardware then leveled the stand then the lathe. Ran through the setup and run procedures with no problems. Did a chuck runout and found it have a TIR of .005" removed the chuck and cleaned chuck and headstock surfaces and had a TIR of .004. Moved the chuck jaws clockwise rechecked and bang TIR was .0005 I'm happy.
Will be changing all fluids recheck level and do a tail stock alignment check and turn a test bar. I have never operated a lathe so very large learning curve is coming.
Here is my attaboy for Grizzly (Thanks Ron) I was given a retroactive 5% discount after finally seeing the discount code.
Mike