05-15-2016, 09:59 PM
My friend got a what I believe is the newest model of Grizzly's 12" jointer. He ordered it several months ago and they said they had to wait for a shipment to arrive from China.
It arrived with oil on it in place of the usual cosmoline so it cleans up easy. It arrived on a steel pallet and was packed in a box that was well built. The tools were tucked into the dust collection chute and that could have been easy to miss because the manual did not mention that. The head is interesting in that it has a sort of J shaped cut into it and the individual cutters sit at the bottom of the J. Most other helical heads have the cutters sitting on the top of a ridge.
The belt is a single wide (~1") multigrove belt. Under power it is rock solid stable. Getting it dialed in was easy. Even lifting it was not bad. One person can lift it by the table and shove a dollie under that end and repeat with the other end and have it on dollies in no time. The manual says it is ok to lift by the tables although it is not something I like to do, but this beast seems to be built solid enough to handle it.
It arrived with oil on it in place of the usual cosmoline so it cleans up easy. It arrived on a steel pallet and was packed in a box that was well built. The tools were tucked into the dust collection chute and that could have been easy to miss because the manual did not mention that. The head is interesting in that it has a sort of J shaped cut into it and the individual cutters sit at the bottom of the J. Most other helical heads have the cutters sitting on the top of a ridge.
The belt is a single wide (~1") multigrove belt. Under power it is rock solid stable. Getting it dialed in was easy. Even lifting it was not bad. One person can lift it by the table and shove a dollie under that end and repeat with the other end and have it on dollies in no time. The manual says it is ok to lift by the tables although it is not something I like to do, but this beast seems to be built solid enough to handle it.
