On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 02:05 PM, Wade Dees wrote:
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Hi Andy,
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I¡¯m dead in the water. ?No manual or override available.
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I¡¯ve just had the worst luck with their service. ?This is my third issue with the machine and each time dealing with Felder Tech has been awful! ?
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I¡¯ve been lied to and misinformed by my sales person from day one and it¡¯s been down hill ever since. ?
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I¡¯m starting to contemplate the selling of my two Felder pieces and just be done with them. ?
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Thx,
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Wade
On Jan 19, 2024, at 1:53 PM, Andy <andy.raynor08@...> wrote:
All these issues with the power drive feature. On these higher end saws is there an alternate way to raise and lower the blade (ie handwheel)?? Or are they dead in the water when the power drive goes down?? I looked briefly through the manual and pictures but I don¡¯t see a handwheel for power drive outfitted machines.?
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I¡¯m slumming it with the hammer line and stuck using a handwheel like a caveman so forgive the question if it seems obvious.?
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Hi James,
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Hey I¡¯ve never been over to Austria, but maybe, with their twisted mind set, all of the car dealer lots have their cars up on blocks. ?
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* Another side note regarding absolutely horrible Felder service on my Power Drive issue for my K700S.? Saw went down on 1/4, created service ticket on 1/5, I¡¯ve had one call regarding this issue in the last 14 days and that call entailed instructions for me to vacuum and clean out the inside of the cabinet to see if that fixes the issue of the blade not rising.? I told him it¡¯s already been done and it¡¯s spotless inside.?
That was on Tuesday, no word since! ?
Two weeks down and counting. ?
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Thx,
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Wade
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It is absurd?and ridiculous that a 10K+ saw does not come with a brand new blade. Who would buy a car without tires?
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James
Installation/Commissioning on a K700S is $1,395, they also like you to buy a new blade and scorer at the same time, so its there for setup.
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Regards K1 / K2, I've personally got it on my AD941, and I love it, albeit its easy to overshoot your desired thickness, easy to resolve, but wish the incremental up was 0.1mm/push, sometimes can be a pain to get a single momentary push out of it.
For the table saw, I opted for just the Hammer-style "Digital" indicator, for normal saw operation, the digital readout for me is pretty much overkill, would only ever be used for dado tooling, the tilt is a little more helpful, but I found the repeatability of the "Digital" indicator on my A31 machine was fine, so assuming the angle version is simmilar. DRO for the fence is different, I'm likley going to add DRO at a later stage.
That said, if it was a shaper, I'm a proponent of DRO for everything possible, to reduce the need for subjective setup blocks.
-Karl
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I spent something like hour and a half in the showroom today.
I definitely know that I don¡¯t want the shaper in the saw.?
Changing from saw to a shaper is PITA and the shaper fence is heavy.
A dedicated Felder shaper will cost ~10K compare to additional 6K I would need to invest going from K to KF model.
I spoke with Phase Perfect and they assured me that I can use the 7.5HP converter. They overbuilt it, as since it is digital it can easily run at the max output.
with the 7.5HP, the saw can max draw 19A
Even the Felder 10HP machines only max out at 24A, leaving me 2A extra (In reality the machines never really get to their max draw)
I saw the K1 motorised blade. It is nice, but without the LED it doesn¡¯t really give anything.
the K2 motor with the LED has a benefit, but only for dados and it costs ~$1600
it is a bit BS that if I want a machine with a metric scale I need to pay extra to get a real world measurements.
The commission for my machine is ¡°only¡± $995 because I live close to Felder showroom.
A new question raise now is whether I want the saw with 800mm rip fence or 1250mm fence.
My current K3 has 800mm and I have really used the extra rip capacity, but I wonder if anyone here use the extra rip capacity??
