Drew,
? ? ? ? ?Your out feed table looks like it is off. I had exactly the problem that you describe. I got the usual blow iff from the local agent, " impossible it is laser set etc." with my C3-31. But when it got as far as I wouldn't use it anymore, as it destroyed so many pieces of hardwood, then I felt that there was nothing to lose.
I bought a set of feeler gauges and used a spirit level for a straight edge, then recorded with chalk on the outfield table each reading that I got, within five minutes there was an obvious pattern that the out feed table was not coplanar to the in-feed and there was a very definite bias over both the length and width of the out feed.
The manual is not great at instructing you how best to proceed and there are ?couple of Allen screws and a bolt or two( one which I sheared) not shown that you have to figure out for yourself.
However, it is very doable and David Best's instructions were my guide as to how to set the tables. Last time I had the Felder tech to service the machine he said that he wouldn't touch it as he couldn't improve on it.
In the manual they refer to using a little piece of graduated wood to check that the blades are just touching it when you turn the cylinder by hand and drag the graduated piece of ?timber forward. That might be a good place to start, to assess if your tables are not coplanar.
Good luck.
Trevor Lusty
Ireland
