Wow, thanks William, I have so much to learn. We just don’t know what we don’t know. I’m excited about getting started knowing now that I have a go to place for help and answers. Thank you so much.
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Thanks Rob! Is this something we could possibly fix ourselves temporarily until the replacements arrive?
At least those of us that are very comfortable with wiring.
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I thought the same thing. I have a Molex Minifit tool and connectors somewhere in my mess of a house. 
But ultimately I disconnected the wire to the front panel, disabled the BitSetter, and went old-school to start running until the new wire gets to me. 
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For anyone who has already gotten their machine, how much space do/did you leave on the sides for clearance? If the envelope is 60" how much extra do you need for any associated electronics boxes, wire movement, etc.?
I’ll eventually build an enclosure but need to build the base first and was planning on a torsion box (and wanted to get it done before my machine gets here).
Thanks!
My top is 62" wide and 60" deep. It barely works for the depth. I have an inch or so on either side. The electronics are on a 3’ long tether, so no need to account for them on the inside of the enclosure. I don’t really plan to enclose, so I went minimal. The machine is pretty large and being able to easily reach the full area to clamp and whatnot was where I focused.
If you’re planning for an enclosure I would do minimum 68" wide and 68" deep. That gives you some room on the sides for maintenance (still put wide side doors for linear rail and ballscrew cleaning and lubrication) as well as room for a dust boot to stick out on the front of the router/spindle. Forgetting to account for the dust boot has caught a lot of people.
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I already received my shipping notification for the replacement wire…on the same day my small order of a Deep Sweep, some Essential Clamps, and an endmill got delivered.
This evening I’ll check the tram and get started planning projects. Although the tram plate I just leveled is already buttery smooth indicating it might already be pretty close to trammed, as-assembled.
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I ended up making a 72" wide by 64" deep tabletop. With the sweepy attached it will be just deep enough to squeeze an enclosure on top.
The sweepy sticks past the front plate of the machine by about 4.25"
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Are you also taking into account the extra space needed for gantry shift? I haven’t see any videos of that feature in action but supposedly it’s another 3+ inches in front of table.
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Nope, that is with the gantry in the back/normal position. Which is where I think I’ll have it 99% of the time. If I do shift the gantry it would be purposefully over the front edge of the table.
Otherwise the suggestion of 68" deep is probably a good benchmark for most tables.
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I fixed my bitsetter issue by swapping the black and green wires on the female side of the face plate extension cables 4 pin connector. Works great now!
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Just got my tracking info for something so I assume it is for this. This is great as I have not been able to get the bitsetter to work correctly since I received the machine 1 week ago. Excited.
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I might suggest depinning the wires instead of cutting and soldering.
Y’all aren’t going to be disappointed. This machine with the spindle RIPS!
200 IPM, 0.500" DOC, 0.200" stepover… no problem!
50 IPM, 0.750" DOC, 0.200" stepover… done!
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That’s some beautiful looking pasta!! 
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Looks cool mate. Happy you got it fired up and cutting.
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Just add boiling water, salt and butter/olive oil.
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That thing looks so…BIG!
Remember when it was all the rage to put a 2.2 kw spindle on a SO3? On the belt driven original Z? The machine was tiny, spindle huge.
What’s your first project to utilize the full capacity? A river, live edge table? Maybe a topo of the US?
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Am I seeing perspective or is that machine longer than 4 feet? 
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Sure looks like a 4x8 in that picture!
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