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Steve, Steve, Steve. Wait just a minute. First off the guy in the video is not drilling into the machine. He is using a battery powered drill with a Philips screwdriver bit to turn the screws. The holes are already drilled into the frame and base of the machine. You can use #2 Philips screw driver to assemble the stand and to attach the wire. You can use an Xacto knife to cut the insulation off of the end of the wire and scrape a little paint off of the stand and machine. Scraping the paint will give a better electrical connection between the frame and machine. The wire that is being attached is to discharge static electricity that builds up by the vinyl running across the metal and plastic parts of the machine. Kind of like when you scuff your feet on the carpet then touch the door knob or get a load of sweaters out of the dryer and pull them apart. The reason you have to discharge the static electricity, is because it will cause the machine to make cuts in the vinyl that you don't want. I hope this helps, now go put that cutter and stand together.

AUGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! This video has the horrible advise of a half credit card! USCutter, get rid of this video!!! An why tell the proper way to do it using vinyl then tell a way to do it using paper? Ok, now that that is over, Yes, that is a grounding wire, and what he showed doing is completely safe. the cutter is not plugged in at this point, so there is no power to spark to anything anyway. Once the cutter is plugged in, this is simply a ground wire, if there is ever a spark on a ground wire, something is very seriously wrong with either the machine or the wiring of the house/building. So other than the setting blade depth thing, what about the video is confusing?

What videos are you watching where they tell you to strip wires or drill holes? The cutter is good to go out of the box, the only assembly would be the stand and it's pretty straight forward, you don't really need instructions to do that. Doesn't matter what cutter you buy, if a stand is included, you're going to have to assemble it yourself. Now, the MH is the lowest of the low and does suffer from static electricity issues. The solution to this is to discharge the static from the vinyl to a ground point. The easiest way to accomplish this is to ground the stand which most people do by attaching a wire to the stand and to a ground point on the cutter.

trying to pay it forward, I wouldnt know that info if I hadn't recently traded for a seiki and just set it up myself. almost every hobby I get in to I mess around buying/trading/ and selling. I always learn more doing that. my gcc the white marks the location where to put the pinch rollers.