ZRX61
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2015 Grizzly Tools catalog arrived today....
Uh oh .....
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Outlawmws
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I'm safe; I'm not on their mailing list (and don't really want to be...) 
southalabama
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Didn't get the grizzly catalog but did get two from victoria secret including the swimsuit catalog.
Are you getting rid of the old ones?
ishiboo
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Does Grizzly ever run any large % off sales I should be aware of, like Enco/Zoro/etc?
Do you really want them? A bunch of the pages are stuck together
Do you really want them? A bunch of the pages are stuck together
Do you really want them? A bunch of the pages are stuck together
This reminds me when I was young working in the bush and was trying to supplement my income during the 3 month spring break-up by pursuing my hobby of photography. I'd gotten an assignment to photograph a family of dairy farmers for a industry trade publication. After spending the morning interviewing and photographing the farmers, their cows, silos and barns etc I stopped in to visit a buddy who lived that side of town. By that time I'd noticed the overwhelming stench coming off my new boots from standing in the cess pool the old farmer had tried to warn me about. I tossed the new boots in the back of my truck (and subsequently had to leave them outside in the rain for over a month before finally accepting they had to go in the garbage). Anyhow, while enjoying a coffee in my buddies living room we were pouring over his wife's victoria secret mags that were on the coffee table when I had the grizzly realization - I had really started at the bottom of this photography thing and had a long long way to aspire to the top.
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I just got mine too! buuuut I'm just going to get a Bridgeport off Craigslist next time...
Last year, I had gotten myself one of their small vertical mills for my birthday. When it arrived I set it up in my car garage, just to unbox/play quick.
Well, I ended up leaving town on work and my father came over to my house for something... and somehow he knocked it over!
DRO smashed, screws mangled, column *bent*.
I was not happy when I got that call. I was originally going to get a Bridgeport, but couldn't find a decent one in time for some work so I bought the Grizzly thinking it would be "mine" and the eventual Bridgeport would be for the company.
I had to borrow a friend's machine to cut the parts for that job, and later we beat and re-machined the Grizzly's column into better than new shape by keying it into the base, properly re-? the ways, and put in some silky new ballscrews.
Actually the first thing I did when I got home to the wreckage was to salvage the machine itself and then pummel the stand into oblivion with a skidsteer.
Replacement stand is 3/4" plate and old H beams welded up into a nice STABLE trapezoid that's almost three times the width of the factory stand and bolted down, of course.
It's a great little machine, I'll never know how it was new out of the box, but ehh. Next task is to CNC it.
Last year, I had gotten myself one of their small vertical mills for my birthday. When it arrived I set it up in my car garage, just to unbox/play quick.
Well, I ended up leaving town on work and my father came over to my house for something... and somehow he knocked it over!
DRO smashed, screws mangled, column *bent*.
I was not happy when I got that call. I was originally going to get a Bridgeport, but couldn't find a decent one in time for some work so I bought the Grizzly thinking it would be "mine" and the eventual Bridgeport would be for the company.
I had to borrow a friend's machine to cut the parts for that job, and later we beat and re-machined the Grizzly's column into better than new shape by keying it into the base, properly re-? the ways, and put in some silky new ballscrews.
Actually the first thing I did when I got home to the wreckage was to salvage the machine itself and then pummel the stand into oblivion with a skidsteer.
Replacement stand is 3/4" plate and old H beams welded up into a nice STABLE trapezoid that's almost three times the width of the factory stand and bolted down, of course.
It's a great little machine, I'll never know how it was new out of the box, but ehh. Next task is to CNC it.
Expecting mine anyday. My father in law is happy. Gave him my spare copy of the McMaster-Carr #120 catalogue. For some reason they send me a couple most years. I usually just give them out to some local shop buddies of mine. The online version is far far handier.