Re: BF6 Mounting a power feed
Richard I have what I think you¡¯re asking about. I¡¯ve got the variofeed 4 (a monster, way too heavy. Wish I bought a strut to assist when I ordered my saw) and have to tilt it out of the way to
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Mike S
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Re: BF6 Mounting a power feed
I assume that this is what you're looking for, on my BF6-26. It looks like it hangs on the dovetail and also has two bolts into the frame of the saw, just above the power cord. [image:
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Scott Laird
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BF6 Mounting a power feed
The user manual mentions a tilting mount for putting a power feed onto a BF6. I can see why you'd want to swing the feed out of the way on a combi machine. Does anyone have one of these? Do they
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[email protected]
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Re: Vacuum bagging
An easier way is to have vacuum storage. Just take an old compressor tank and turn it into vacuum storage. Attach it to your lines and use it to suck out the first bunch of air letting your pump do
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Fred Rossi
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Re: Vacuum bagging
As Jonathan just mentioned, a fast way to evacuate a large bag is beneficial. We have a 5x10' zipper bag from Vacupress, and use their pump. It takes a long time to suck the air out of that bag with a
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Jason Holtz
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Re: Vacuum bagging
On Mar 2, 2021 01:03, murrayau1 <murraywp@...> wrote: I have a rather large the veneer job coming up. An architect has designed a fancy roof to go at the rear of our house and it has rather
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Jonathan Martens
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Re: Northfield 32" Bandsaw
Joe, The first two digits of the serial number indicate the year that it was built.? For example, my Northfield planer's serial number is A-01... and was built in 2001. Dennis
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dennisnmnyamamoto@...
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Re: Vacuum bagging
I made the same vacuum pump but used a small cast off air compressor tank for the build. It works great. I also have the expensive vacuum press from VacuPress. The kit pump works just as well. It¡¯s
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G Fuqua
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Re: Vacuum bagging
I would suggest checking out Veneeringsupplies.com <http://veneeringsupplies.com/> as well. I have two small vacuum pumps, one a no name brand from Amazon and the other a Gast that i bout off eBay for
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Christopher Edwards
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Re: Vacuum bagging
Murray: Years ago I made the investment in a true vacuum pump system and other than my Felder slider it has been my best investment. I use it all the time for everything from veneering to gluing up
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Fred Rossi
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Re: Vacuum bagging
I made this vacuum pump for veneering and am very happy with it: https://www.veneersupplies.com/docs/instructions-ProjectEVS.pdf - Scott
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Sawdust77
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Vacuum bagging
I have a rather large? veneer job coming up. An architect has designed a fancy roof to go at the rear of our house and it has rather complicated curved beams cut out of LVL beam material. I want to
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murrayau1
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Re: Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
Eejit, If you are not familiar, Google Translate is awesome. Just use camera and it will convert german to english words. You can freeze results otherwise it continues to give options. It usually
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imran
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Re: Power carvers
Roger, The April edition of Fine woodworking has the style of power carver I was talking about. His is an Automach, mine is a Skil with an adapter for flexcut chisels. Marlowe
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Marlowe McGraw
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Re: Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
The motor may have an optical encoder to count the steps to determine position. I believe there are two types of stepper motors, one that uses an encoder to positively determine position and the other
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Joe Jensen
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Re: Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
Thanks for the replies so far. Imran, we are based in London, UK. I've been trying to go through the schematics myself but as they are in German it is quite difficult to orientated. If I can narrow it
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Eejit <aaron@...>
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Re: Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
Eejit, I feel for you. I find it odd that the fix for a ¡°menu not being available¡± is a control panel replacement. Unless there is a part of screen that is dead it sounds like a software issue. It
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imran
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Re: Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
Sounds like typical troubleshooting with limited diagnosis.? It may not be possible to diagnose the way the board is designed but I would think they could have got some info on the error codes to
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Joe Jensen
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Problem with Rise and Fall motor on Felder Format4 Kappa 550 Sliding Table Saw
#welcome
Hi All, I'm joined this forum as I'm looking for some advice on how to go about getting repair work done on our Felder equipment. We have a Format 4 Kappa 550 sliding table saw. The rise and fall
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Eejit <aaron@...>
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Re: Northfield 32" Bandsaw
Joe, I'm thinking 3000-4500. I don't follow NF much so I could be off. their jointer commands a premium but I don't know if the 32" saw does. Dave ________________________________ Sent: Monday, March
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David Kumm
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