Hi folks - Thanks again for all the support. I finally got the KF down into the basement and reassembled - everything looks good, but I am struggling a little with the instructions for refitting the slider. As you recall I removed the slide from the base before transporting it back; on refitting, set the carrier 50% on to the lower slide, put the upper slide on a lift cart, engaged the brg cages and slid the table on; so far so good. However, once in place it was appaent that the roller carrier (the flat steel plate that holds the bearing cages) seems to be set too far down the table. Next step in the instructions is to 'align the carrier' by pushing to 'overcome the resistance' and reset the carrier position; however the carrier at this point is hard up against the 2 end stops on the far end of the slider - it seems pretty solid, and any force applied to move the table forward would be reacted through o the tabs on the bearing carrier, which given how solid the stop feels, risks shearing the tabs off. If I leave the stops off at the far end and pull the slide back towards the saw end, the cages and plate eventually roll out from underneath the upper table; with the stops attached, pushing the slide forwards rolls the bearing cages out at the far end. The failure mode as far as I can tell is that the cage is too far down the table, but clearly I'm either missing something blindingly obvious, or I'm too nervous to 'overcome the resistance' as shown in the manual. The resistance in this case seems to be a pretty hard stop, which is giving me reason not to push too hard until more intelligent people can wade in. Once engaged, I have not been able to move the plate relative to the upper and lower tables - not surprising given the roller contact area. As far as I can tell, the plate and carriers do nothing other than retain the position of the cages and rollers - once installed all of the forces are reacted through the rollers. I've looked through the links that David Beswt et all have published, but they see to relate more to a complete removal of the slider assy rather than just the upper section.? Apologies if I've missed this anywhere, but any pearls of wistom from folks who have done this before would be most welcome.
Thanks again for all the help and advice :)
Best regards
David
