Quick review.
Finally found the time to finish putting the thing together this evening.
I picked up a mobile base for the saw and it was missing a nut out of the hardware package. Which brings up a minor annoyance, all the hardware is metric.
The owners/assembly manual for the saw is well put together and flows in a logical manner with the exception I will note later.
Assembly was pretty straight forward but there were a few minor glitches.
Somewhere back up the line there were some minor changes to how the saw and hardware are packaged. This causes some assembly steps to not quite make sense ie; "Install motor cover with the attached phillips head screws" when in reality you use Allen head screws out of the hardware pack. I had read about these minor issues when researching the saw.
On a positive note;The appropriate Allen wrenches are included with the hardware pack.
The saw itself went together with no hiccoughs other than me not paying quite as close attention to the instructions as I might have.
Once assembled the only alignment I had to do was on the distance gauge of the rip fence. All other settings were spot on right out of the box. Blade parallel to the miter slots. Blade square to the table. Fence parallel to the blade and square to the table.
I didn't even bother with the supplied 40 tooth blade and installed a Diablo by Freud 40T thin kerf blade. My initial cuts were several rip cuts with the fence set to different distances. all cuts out to 4 inches were dead on. I then made several cross cuts at 90° and 45°. Again spot on. I used both pine and white oak to make my test cuts.
Over all I am impressed with this saw and look forward to using it.
I'm somewhat impressed with Diablo blades and plan to pick up at least a couple more for different applications. I've been accustomed to much cheaper blades and I'm a little surprised at the difference.
https://diablotools.com/products/D1040X