The only thing I find curious is the difference in weight. I'm wondering how they lost 100 pounds. I thought that one weight in at 275.
Maybe you could sell a trip to the showroom as a get away with the wife... Uh, well you can work on it... Their scratch and dent sale comes up later this year. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Drill press advice. I wish I had known about the Grizzly showroom last July when I was out in that area back packing. It's a good 200 miles from here, so gas plus hotel plus meals. *GRIN* So let me ask people what they think about this choice: The Grizzly G7944 Motor: 3/4 H.P., single-phase, 110V Overall height: 64" Spindle travel: 3-1/4" Number of speeds: 12 Drill chuck: 1/8"-5/8" Spindle taper: MT #2 Range of speeds: 140, 260, 320, 380, 480, 540, 980, 1160, 1510, 1650, 2180, 3050 RPM Swing: 14" Drilling capacity: 3/4" steel Table: Precision ground cast iron Table size: 11-3/8" sq. Table swing: 360 Table tilts: 90 in both directions Approx. shipping weight: 172 lbs. Grizzly G7947 -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]