Bought new HF33686 and was horrified at vibration, chatter and noise durring heavy metal cutting. I figured something was wrong with unit but after tearing head down isolated problem to basic design, inherent in all machines, probably all versions(comments on this?).
Noise was coming from under pulley. I thought I needed a new spindle or yoke, its called the "spindle taper sleeve" HF part no. 6. Grizzley Part No. 306. I talked with service dept. at HF and they are clueless. so called Grizzly and told them I bought a used G1007 and got on the phone with those guys. This is a trick Ive used with my HF 9x20 Lathe and a couple other HF tools. The guys at Grizzley Know alot about these machines,the HF guys are just not real familiar.
Anyway fix is a $3.00 10 minut monthly maintenance item. Pack that Mo Fo full a greeze. I covered the spindle end, the spline, with some sticky red grease and packed the tapered spindle sleeve full from underneath with the quill droped down. This may be able to be done from above through the top of the pulley, but I allready had it apart so I went up & in from the front. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MACHINE NOW. It runs smooth and has very little chatter. I dont know if everyone just tolerates the machines like it was, or if mine was unusually bad or what, but at Grizzly they told me all of the machines are like that -"real noisey". Man what a difference. Next item is ballscrews. I cant deel with the slop in the table. Then the CNC conversion. I will post all with lots of photos as I go.
Note: Pulling head apart was nothing. It was very easy to drop out the spindle and re-assemble in less than a half hour.