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I'm glad I found this board and hope to learn a lot here.

I just bought my 4 x 6 saw and have yet to even make a cut with it.
I like to poke around a little and get familiar with how things are
put together first before I put it to use. Anyway, a visit to my
sister and her family made an excellent excuse for me to get close to
Grizzly in Williamsport, PA. It is hard to describe the Grizzly
showroom other than it is absolutely spectacular. Gleaming, new,
awesome. This was what I would expect the Rolls-Royce dealership in
Beverly Hills to look like, not the Yugo tool store. All of their
equipment is on display for touch and feel. Fantastic. Plus, if
you're into the outdoors, there's a brand new Gander Mountain store
next door.

I got the saw home and the first thing I did was to find the manual.
There are good ones and there are bad ones. This one is so bad that
it becomes funny. Quote: "Turn on the switch, and change the blade
speed..." With the V-belt pulleys? Not!!! Or this wonderful
direction that "#53 Hexagon Head Screw should be adjusted in accurate
height when machine in cutting after finished off cutting then
magnetic Switch can be lost." The topper though is this one in the
section on guide bearing adjustment. "Loosen the nut while holding
the bolt with an alien wrench." That's the same wrench that fits the
alien holes which were obviously lost along with with the magnetic
switch. The Grizzly manual has no section whatsoever on assembly so
you're on your own there.

So far, I'm fairly impressed with the quality of the machine itself,
considering the price and think it will do very well for my
applications. The first "modification" I am making is to replace all
of the "metrinch" fasteners. SAE threads with metric heads. It's
just a lot easier to find inch tools than metric. There are some
other things I can see to be improved and I'll post them as I go
along.

I have one question at this point. When the moving jaw of the vise
is clamped, it still can rock a bit. It clamps to the nut which
sticks up just a bit from the vise base. I would think that the jaw
should clamp down to the base. Is this the way it should be? Should
I grind down the top of the nut or was this the way it is designed?
Am I missing something obvious here?

I hope we can liven up this board and look forward to all the helpful
things I'll learn here.

Tom

Thanks for the post. I'm not sure about the vise, I'll have to look
at mine when I get home.

As for the assembly steps, i posted my assembly (check the links
section at the 4x6 home page or go to
to see). I bet yours is now done
but just for future refence of anyone who needs a hand.
The Enco manual is also online at
3150.pdf that may have some assembly instructions, not sure.

I hope it livens up a bit too. Share the site with anyone you can
hopefully we'll get some more gurus out here to join us.


--- In 4x6bandsaw@y..., "tomin130" <tomin130@y...> wrote:

I'm glad I found this board and hope to learn a lot here.

I just bought my 4 x 6 saw and have yet to even make a cut with it.
I like to poke around a little and get familiar with how things are
put together first before I put it to use. Anyway, a visit to my
sister and her family made an excellent excuse for me to get close

to

Grizzly in Williamsport, PA. It is hard to describe the Grizzly
showroom other than it is absolutely spectacular. Gleaming, new,
awesome. This was what I would expect the Rolls-Royce dealership in
Beverly Hills to look like, not the Yugo tool store. All of their
equipment is on display for touch and feel. Fantastic. Plus, if
you're into the outdoors, there's a brand new Gander Mountain store
next door.

I got the saw home and the first thing I did was to find the

manual.

There are good ones and there are bad ones. This one is so bad that
it becomes funny. Quote: "Turn on the switch, and change the blade
speed..." With the V-belt pulleys? Not!!! Or this wonderful
direction that "#53 Hexagon Head Screw should be adjusted in

accurate

height when machine in cutting after finished off cutting then
magnetic Switch can be lost." The topper though is this one in the
section on guide bearing adjustment. "Loosen the nut while holding
the bolt with an alien wrench." That's the same wrench that fits

the

alien holes which were obviously lost along with with the magnetic
switch. The Grizzly manual has no section whatsoever on assembly so
you're on your own there.

So far, I'm fairly impressed with the quality of the machine

itself,

considering the price and think it will do very well for my
applications. The first "modification" I am making is to replace

all

of the "metrinch" fasteners. SAE threads with metric heads. It's
just a lot easier to find inch tools than metric. There are some
other things I can see to be improved and I'll post them as I go
along.

I have one question at this point. When the moving jaw of the vise
is clamped, it still can rock a bit. It clamps to the nut which
sticks up just a bit from the vise base. I would think that the jaw
should clamp down to the base. Is this the way it should be? Should
I grind down the top of the nut or was this the way it is designed?
Am I missing something obvious here?

I hope we can liven up this board and look forward to all the

helpful

things I'll learn here.

Tom