>>2874229
>not buying quality tools from the golden age of manufacturing
youll learn eventually>>2874229
>>2874239
Yeah, I recently had to deal with that exact model grizzly at work as a drop-in "upgrade" for another relatively new press. Disappointing is right. Cheap in a lot of little, unexpected but seriously annoying ways. Effortlessly wrecked even by our other old rockwell/delta machines that have barely been maintained and have taper problems...>>2867744
Been using Eskonke for thread locker and retaining compound.>>2874241
Old tapers can be reground and those machines returned to service making money. It's not difficult to do so if your work will sell them to you for scrap or trade for some labor you could take one home and start that machine tool accumulation journey.

BTW don't bother with machinery skates which slip and tip. Fabbing a suitable dolly doesn't even require a welder but one comes in quite handy.>>2874229
maybe change the bearings or look if you can change the preload of them
cheap drill presses use radial ball bearings instead of proper bearings.>>2865650
Most of it is not bad at all. Someone specific ones are well behind on features thought. Their track saw is basically only good for cutting panels, the power and the crappy baseplate will disappoint you with more involved stuff. But I bought a bunch of their stuff 5 years ago when I was gutting and rebuilding a house that had a fire. Its all still going strong. Only issue is that the chuck on the original brushed drill/driver has gotten crunchy. Only 1 battery pack (one of the old 1.5Ah) out of maybe 8 I have has given up.

>>2865744
I have this same multi-head tool with the edger and string trimmer. Works great except that the edger eats the batteries pretty quick (usually need two 4Ah to trim and edge 1/3rd acre lot), and the speed selector switch on the side is positioned just right to rub against my knee and switch to low speed when I'm walking with it.

YOUR MOST DISAPPOINTING TOOL

Everybody has at least one tool they thought would be a lifesaver, yet it sits on the shelf mocking you year after year...

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