Sling the manual in the...
So far, after a bit of faffing it is performing very well, the manual may as well be written in hieroglyphics for all the use it is, there are a couple of good youtube videos out there that will help, Badgers workshop is one, ironically the design has been updated, which makes it a lot easier to set up whilst the manual has become more vague, my advice would be to watch the videos and you should be easily able to work out which bits have been updated, as far as I can see there are only two models of planer/thicknessers at this level which are being produced at the moment, this and the Dewalt, which is three times the price, my friend has the Dewalt and suprisingly for Dewalt it is absolutely terrible, so much so, after using my Metabo he is going to sell his Dewalt and buy the Metabo, so overall at the moment I am very happy with mine.