It might be interesting what prompted Felder to send me this document. ? Turns out that on the initial production run of the new model, the factory had over-tensioned the belts which as causing the motor shafts to sheer off after a few hours. ?Indeed, in my situation, the email warning came too late - when running some faceframe material through the planer, I heard a loud “CLUNK” then I could hear the planer head grind to a stop. ? Pulling off the back covers, there it was - the shaft of the 13HP motor had sheered clean off and the pulley was laying in the bottom of the chassis. ? Took two air freight shipments and 3 weeks to get a replacement. ? The first replacement which ultimately made it’s way back to Felder was described as looking like it had fallen 20 stories out of a building onto concrete. ?