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Delta Slow Speed Grinder Rocks!
The grinder arrived the day after I ordered it. Amazon Prime is worth the money. The grinder runs strong, true, and steady. The wheels dressed up quickly with the enclosed dresser. I would purchase this same unit again. Not a lot more money than a grinder with only half the power from the local big box store. Thanks Amazon!

Excellent Benchtop Grinder! Exactly as expected!!
It's exactly as expected. It is true, the wheels it comes with do need to be trued, but that only takes a second, and I due that with all new wheels any ways. Quick assembly, but poor instruction. Could have more pics, but any one with any mechanical adbility will breeze through it. One complaint, is I wish the light came with a light bulb. Oh, and it does come with a wheel dresser! It arrived in an abused box, but none of the parts were damaged, I had it running shortly just to make sure, and it's great!

Amazon and Delta need to get their act together
As the previous reviewers have observed, I ordered this item on April 1, 2007 and the April Fool's joke was on me. They are now claiming a November delivery date for the $166 price including shipping. I just bought a Dayton industrial grinder off of Ebay for about the same price so as soon as that one arrives I will be canceling. Amazon refused to do anything and Delta's site question service just said they didn't have these in stock yet Amazon is still taking orders via one of their allied vendors. Shame on all of them.

Update, 23 Aug. Now I am convinced that Amazon gave a really late ship date to get people to cancel so they wouldn't have to honor the $166 price instead if getting $250+. Had they told me it would be August, I would have waited. Even more shame on Amazon & Delta.

I am rating Amazon service not the grinder
I have had a similar experience with delays. I ordered this on Febuary 10 and to-date have had Amazon change the delivery estimates 4 times ... the current delivery estimate is between June 5 - 20th. When I ordered it was $175. I am monitoring the price while I wait and at one point it dropped to $166.25 so I fired off an email and Amozon extended that price to me. So far that has been the highlight of this whole ordeal. I intend to wait them out ... somehow I suspect sometime before June 5th I will get another email from Amozon informing me of yet another delay (which would be the 5th). The thought has crossed my mind that Amazon may have known all along that they were not getting a shipment of these grinders in until the 3rd or 4th quarter of this year and are just trying to pre-sell the lot.

Wow ... The last update Amazon estimated shipping was Nov. 11th. Today is August 9th, 2007 and I just got an email from Amazon that the grinder has shipped ..... I odered the thing on Feb 10th of this year ... almost 6 months to the day!! I wanted this grinder and attempted to order it from a different supplier for only $13 more .... but alas they too backordered the thing .... giving me first an estimated delivery date at the end of July and then one sometime in Sept. I let it be a race between Amazon and the new guy and Amazon won ..... I sent an email tonight to cancel the other order. I will update this post after I use it for a while to actually give a review of the product and not the debacle that was the order experience.

Amazon delays delivery multiple times
I had this grinder on order for approximately 6 weeks at a price of $175. During that time Amazon notified me that delivery was rescheduled to a later date about 4 times. Each time there was no assurance that there would not be further delays. I finally got frustrated and cancelled the order. I came back and looked at bench grinders again and what do you know! The price had increased $40. I suspect that the grinder will be available at the new price without delay. If I use Amazon for tool purchases in the future, I will use shipping delays as an indication of pending price increases.