About 6 mo. ago, I picked up a HF 14" band saw and 9x46" disc/belt
sander, preowned. Seems ok, band saw has seen a bit of work. So last
mo. bought the 7" HF jointer. A real PITA to assemble, the author of
the manual, I feel, has never even seen a jointer. But works good. No
blade adjustment screws, (manual said it had them), so had to make them.
Outfeed & infeed are flat to each other, fence comes back to 90 each
time. But their black spring clamps are pure junque, 4 broke within the
first week.

Vic Baron wrote:
HF was having a sale on their 6" jointer and stand for 179 so I decided to
pick one up. Thought I'd post my experiences as I set it up.

First of all, it was packed extremely well. The shipping case was angle iron
with wood in between. Very sturdy. Although I'm used to working alone, this
thing is HEAVY - about 96kg which I believe is about 200lbs. The main
jointer tables and cutterhead com pre assembled but you do have to set up
the stand and lift the jointer on top. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to
assemble the stand. The instructions were clear and all the parts were
there. The parts fit and assembled with no problem. All I had time to do
today was get the unit unpacked and assemble the stand.

When I mount the jointer to the stand and set it up, I'll post more.

Overall impression was very good. The quality of the nuts and bolts and the
metal cabinet is very good.


Vic Baron