The ¡°short leg¡± is what Felder intends to be the ¡°leveling leg.¡± ?This is Austrian engineering at it¡¯s finest. ?Felder anticipates that many people will not be adding leveling feet to all four corners, ?and will probably have the machine just sitting squat on the floor. ?On an uneven floor, that would mean three points would be on the floor, the 4th point would not. ?So they purposely shortened one leg with the expectation that it would be jacked up to ensure the machine doesn¡¯t rock and tilt. ?My Kappa came with one leveling foot for that purpose. ?It is the case that if the floor is dead flat, the machine will rock about if the leveling foot isn¡¯t installed - I tested that bit.
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Actually, weirdly, there are only 2 holes pre drilled on the inboard side - one on each ¡°leg¡± for seems about a 3/8¡± hole. One ¡°leg¡± is shorter than all the others and had one leveler installed. The other two corners beneath the slider had no holes at all so I drilled for the 3/8¡± studded feet that I had but will need to open them all up to the 1/2¡±.?
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I¡¯m surprised you can get 1/2¡± studs into the holes on the bottom of the machine chassis. ?Every Felder machine I have or have seen has 11mm holes, which is too small for a 1/2¡± stud.
This is what I used on my Kappa 400:
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Yes, used a 2¡± pad version of the below from mcmaster, seemed fine on the k700 and one corner is like 1.5¡± - 2¡± in the air. Doesn¡¯t seem enough on the k940 so i am installing 4¡± with 1/2¡± stud and extra thick oversized washers only because the ones u get at the big box are junk... using the grade 8 jam nut because one corner needs to be as close to the floor as I can get, should be ok.
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Thanks Mark, your photo explains it well. Question did you use leveling feet on your K700S? The layout drawing shows them, looks like 8 of them. Unfortunately my floor is not very level where my saw goes and I have had to shim/use levelers with all of my past saws in my shop. After 20+ yrs I am thinking about hiring a company to grind the floor to level out the high spots and put on a nice epoxy coating before the arrival of my new K700S 20 weeks from now.?
Pat Rice
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