I cored a couple of wild cherry bowls at a demo last week, using my WoodCut BowlSaver Max 3 rig on the club's 3520b. A few days later, I mounted them on the 0766 in my shopto do final roughing. To me, there is a noticable power difference in my 0766 and the 3520b. Of course, the motor on the 0766 is rated @ 3 hp, and the 3520b @ 2 hp, and in the experience I have noticed that there is less stalling on the Grizz 0766. I have done two coring demos at two seperate clubs with the Bowl Saver Max 3, both on 3520b's, and I prefer coring on my 0766 due to the power increase. Some comments early on spoke about Grizzly horsepower being overstated due to published amps in the spec sheet, but testing by Electrical Engineer, Paesler confirmed the amps were way more than what I believe to be a misprint on the spec sheet of 4 amps at full load. Sparky measured 10.5 amps if I recall correctly, which is in line with the 3 hp rating. The 0766, and 0800 both have plenty of power for coring.
I meant to say in the previous post that I think Grizzly's spec sheet should have read "no load amps" and not full load amps. At least there is an 0766 owner, which is an electrical engineer who did testing and found it to be 10.5 amps. For many this doesn't make any difference, but it does point to the power being what was stated as a 3 hp motor.
Did you run on the low or high speed pulley configuration on the Griz?
I am going to get the same Woodcut when they come in in December.
I always core on the low belt setting...that is true for any lathe when coring. The torque at low speeds is maintained by the inverter.
