This is exactly the reason my Jet is on the truck for delivery by Friday or Monday. I lusted after the PM66 for a few years but came time to push the button to buy I just couldn't justify the extra k buck. I make sawdust on the weekends. If I ran the saw 8 hours a day 5 to7 days a week then yeah the PM66 would be on the truck.
I'm not sure. I wish I could find that review. I may have mis-spoke, but I thought he said the micro-precision was thinner in metal than the the non-micro-adjust one. I thought the word "flimsier" was used.
I really wish WHM/Jet had a web page like Dell uses when configuring computers. You select the main piece, then options, sub-options, etc. If you didn't understand an option, there would be a pop-up with more info.
Get the PM66, you deserve it! If you get anything else you will still be wanting one.
I have the JTAS10 with the micro-adjustable fence. There's nothing flimsy about it. The only disappointments, for me, are that the micro-adjust has lots of backlash, and the quick-release UHMW plastic sides are not perfectly flat.
So, I don't use the micro-adjust all that often (tap-tap-tap works just fine). And there recently was a discussion here about the quick-release sides, where fixes and alternatives were well discussed.
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