?Hello Everyone. I acquired a few Felder machines recently and am diving head first into the world of Felder equipment. I got a KF 700 built in 2002, an AF-22 dust collector also 2002 and an AD 741 built 2004. They are all three phase and came with a rotary phase converter. The previous owner passed away and his wife only had a small folder of paperwork to give me. He bought the KF 700 used but I had only been setup and tested. The AD 741 has never been used, I cleaned the cosmoline off and had to attach a plug since the power cord just had pigtails. The RPC had also never been spun or hooked up.?

So I immediately contacted David Best and purchased a pdf copy of the Unofficial Felder Survival Guide. I haven't read the whole thing but I have scanned it a few times through, and used it to figure out things that weren't intuitive to me.

Last week the electrician wired everything up, and then on Friday I moved the machines into the shop. Gave everything a spin just to make sure that the wiring was correct and everything spun the right direction. Since then I've been cleaning, de-rusting, and doing a lot of reading/internet researching as this is MUCH different than the Grizzly tools circa 2006 that I've been using.

It's overwhelming but in a good way, going to have to re-write my workflows. I look forward to the challenge and potential growth.

Off the bat I've learned that this KF700 does not have the dado option, which is something I use from time to time. I suppose I can design around my new circumstances, but just a cursory look inside the saw I assume it's much more complicated to "add" the dado option after the machine has left the shop. The dust shroud and riving knife mount don't look like they'd allow any sort of dado stack/grooving tooling. Has anyone converted a non-dado option to a dado option?

I also have a few pieces that I just don't know where they belong (or if they do) since the previous owner wasn't able to tell me what parts went with what.

I'll post more detailed questions in the future, but for now just wanted to introduce myself and say thank you for all who have contributed here as I've already learned quite a bit just searching and reading the archives of this amazing forum.

Please excuse the poor pics, I haven't taken proper photos yet!?




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