Sorry it's taken me so long to get these pictures of guys, it's been a very busy week and it seems like all I was doing was putting out fires cell phone issues (on my third new cell phone in five weeks. Customer service at T-Mobile has been good). And then life always has its issues and unfortunately so did the new Grizzly belt sander, but I will say their customer service was excellent! More about that later.
I tried to give you blow-by-blow pictures to give you some idea of what it's like to set up a new sander. I just kind of hit the high points because I didn't have time to do a video or a real in-depth tutorial.
I had purchased my Delta locally about 15 years ago so it was already assembled when I bought it. I have had various parts of the Delta apart over the years and I'm familiar with the layout, though some of the parts are different on the Grizzly than they are on the Delta, I was to discover much to my chagrin.
#1 – The box has arrived, 65 pounds of Grizzly 1 x 42 Sander
#2 – Top layer.
#3 – Its new resting place, right where the old one set.
#4 – unloading the top tray of parts
#5 – Second layer, bottom of the base of the machine
#6 – The belt housing assembly
#7 – The backside of the belt housing assembly.
#8 – Getting everything to bolt the two assemblies together
#9 – The two main components bolted into place without guards.
#10 – A casting problem with the upper idler wheel. A sharp edge sprue or something from the casting process that sticks up about .070". That will chew up the J weight belt in no time at all and the heavy belt just a little slower.
#11 – I always use some graphite cloth on the platens of my belt sanders. However the schematic for this Grizzly call so they built support. Regardless, some of the graphite treated cloth glued down with some tacky glue softens the support behind the belt and helps prevent chatter of the workpiece and also extends life of the belt.
#12 – Setting up the disk Sander and making sure the table is perpendicular to the disk.
#13 – The finished sander as I set it up for the test run.
I am going to close this post make another post world detailing some of the issues I encountered setting up this machine.
Nothing really major, just time-consuming.