Gordon said, in part, "Only the engineers at Grizzly would put a disk sander there in place of the handwheel, for manicure or removing the rough callus of left palm? to block the use of the knock out bar? to use through the hole vacuum chucking?"
Gordon, as you know, I'm pretty much a fan of Grizzly. But, I do have to admit that some features on their tools says to me that some of their (Chinese?) engineers really do not understand the function of what they are designing. Methinks they are given specs and draw up the machine and go from there. Having an old timer curmudgeon, like us, there, before final approval, would make for much better tools.
Of course, this is true for a lot of things. On American cars, I have often wondered if anyone actually tried driving those things before selling them to the public.