After getting it home and unboxing it, the fun really began. As with a lot of other things these days, the instruction booklet kind of sucked. black & white pictures that was hard to see and understand. :-(
In the end, I looked it up on YouTube to see how the motor mounted on the base. Also, on YouTube I see two videos that were wrong for changing the grinding wheel. The two videos I see showed them removing the plastic guard to put on, or change the grinding wheel which is wrong.
All you needed to do was loosen one screw and the center of the guard will swing out of the way. You can then put an Allen wrench on the end of the arbor to loosen the bolt that holds the wheel in place. If you look at the shaft while turning it, you will see a hole where you can insert a nail or something to hold the shaft while you loosen/tighten the Allen bolt. Of course, not knowing, I followed what they showed on the YouTube video, removing the whole guard.
I figured after removing the guard there has to be a way to lock the shaft to remove the Allen bolt and change the grinding wheel, that's when I seen the hole in the shaft. So, the next time I'll know.
I didn't use the sharpener yet, but I did mount it on a board and turned it on to make sure the grinding wheel was turning true. I seen were some grinders had some wobble in the grinding wheel, it's not the wheel, but rather something to do with the shaft or something. I guess there is a way to correct that problem, but mine was turning true and straight.
I probably won't be using it until spring or summer, but I'll have it for when I need it. Then the fun will start getting everything set correctly....
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