I'm planning on replacing my Minimax 300 CU; year of manufacture: 2000. For several years I have experienced overheating of the saw and shaper motors when running the machine for extended periods, especially under heavy load, e.g., thick hardwood ripping on the saw.?

Is there any danger in letting the saw run with no load to see how long it will go before shutting itself off (which is had been doing). I want to test it before presenting it for sale. I did some cleanup on the shop wiring, which MAY have improved matters.

When the motor(s) have overheated in the past, they shut themselves off without tripping a breaker. After letting the saw sit and cool down, it would turn on again. This is not a production shop, so I rarely do long runs, only when I get a helper or two and have some extended time off from other duties for a special project.?

One more question: For a future owner, does this sound like something that could be remedied by having the motor rewound at a motor shop?
What does that procedure normally cost (if the motor tech thinks it will be effective?

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Very well done Mark. I have a message in to Felder regarding purchasing the LED module as an upgrade for a non auto rise model and am curious what the control interface is like. Any insights from your schematics?

With a new set of inserts, the gap between the plastic and the slider is over 11mm in the blade area and 1.3mm away at the full with sections. Following is a problem that would have been prevented with a ZCI and why I too will be creating or purchasing one. Last year when trimming the end of a mitered euro ply shelf the triangle offcut found its way through the gap hitting the chip deflector bending it into the scoring blade taking off a tooth in the process..... It was a new scoring blade. Another upgrade might be replacing the deflector with 1/8"+ AL plate to replace the thin stock part??


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I'm not sure I follow this.? If the outfeed table is .050" higher than the cutting arc, then after about 1" of jointing, the wood would hit the .050" higher edge of the outfeed table and come to a dead stop.? So the jointed is completely unusable.? Is this what you're saying?

Tell me more about the fence you are using there.

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Correct David K.

Thanks Steve! I will check that tomorrow.?

For anyone that in interested, I took a leap of design faith and purchased a Wixey Saw Fence Digital Readout to have a lower cost DRO on the table side of my Hammer C31.

Happy to share with limited medications to the kit from Wixey and 4-5 holes in the bottom of the fence rail on the Hammer you have a great DRO setup.

See attached images.? The Magnet on the Wixey is positioned close enough to worm without any modifications to the fence.



https://www.rockler.com/wixey-saw-fence-digital-readout

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I have the outfeed table with both corners same height. Still seems high. I would expect the outfeed table ?to be level with TDC of the cutters, but it’s higher.?

I have it as low as it will go. Still 50 thousands above TDC.?

Hello Greg,

I sent you an email yesterday morning regarding your machine's electrical problem. ??

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I had this problem once. After a lot of checking, I realized I did not lower the planer table quite enough and the outfeed table was slightly high when set up in the jointer configuration. Lifting the outfeed table, lowering the planer table and relowering the outfeed table fixed the problem. ?Hope your problem is as simple.?

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Hamish,
Please see response below. I believe the infeed table is ?low on the far end. I have had this machine for almost a year and this is a new issue. Thanks for your help!