Ruhi Arslan
12-21-2016, 10:09 PM
It's been a while... I was contemplating to swap my Hammer J/P and PM66 saw for a combo slider and finally acted on it last Spring. Ordered the 532Pro with some what I considered suitable for my needs. Estimated delivery was "up to 12 weeks" but of course ended up nearly 20 weeks. Since I am within 100 or so miles of New Castle, DE, I opted to pick it up to save the sales tax (don't take me wrong, I am going to declare and pay it when I file my taxes after January 1st :) ).
I read as much as I could find about space requirements, shipping, receiving, uncrating, commissioning, using with so many conflicting, confusing or sometimes out right misleading information. Obtained the space requirements directly from Felder. They have an engineering drawing with all options in any configuration available, if you know how to read a technical drawing. Allowed me to make a sound decision on my choices. They gave me also advice on crate and shipping options but they were mostly not applicable or misleading, later I found out. I opted out to have the delivery in combined (J/P is already attached to the shaper/saw and slider already mounted) in one piece since I have the suitable door openings to my walkout basement shop. One thing misleading was the opening requirements. The measurement they report does NOT include the appendages (handles, mounted attachment points etc.). You have to remove them to fit through a 60" door even though reported width is less than that. I chose to rent a 16 foot truck instead of 24 or so as suggested. As big of a truck you can rent was the advice. The drop gate is not wide enough to rotate the crate on it. I hired a flatbed tow truck for $100 to move it from the box truck to my garage floor. It was a piece of cake and best spent $100. Once it is unmounted from the crate, after emptying the all the boxes stuffed around, a makeshift ramp from the hefty skid with the help of a pallet jack made it a one person job. It requires to experiment to place the jack just right to keep it nicely balanced. It required to burn some calories to push through the basement but found itself in the middle of the empty shop floor in few hours. It did not require much setting but the lack of "instructions" if you must have any to put things together can be extremely frustrating. Again, if you an read technical drawings, it is fairly easy. I took few quick reference measurements, started all the motors, etc. and called it a day.
Although I have 3-Phase supply at my house, I elected to get the 1-Phase version with 2050 slider. The way the saw brake works was nerving first till I found out how it works. :)
Slider toes out about 0.050" during the entire stroke of the slider, one end to other. The gap in between the cast iron top and slider is varying about 0.014" across the width of the cast from front to back (toeing out). When I measure the variation of toe out along the saw blade, it is 0.004". I think I can make this better. I squared the crosscut fence mounted on the slider using five-cut method with a 2x2' piece. A quick fine adjust resulted 0.0001" (yes, ten thousands) difference along the length of the cut of piece. I am not even sure if I should mess with the slider at this point.
Here and there, some quirkiness and quality issues but overall, I'd say, out of box, ready to work. I'd appreciate any comments about the meaning of slider toeing out of being 50 thousands.
I read as much as I could find about space requirements, shipping, receiving, uncrating, commissioning, using with so many conflicting, confusing or sometimes out right misleading information. Obtained the space requirements directly from Felder. They have an engineering drawing with all options in any configuration available, if you know how to read a technical drawing. Allowed me to make a sound decision on my choices. They gave me also advice on crate and shipping options but they were mostly not applicable or misleading, later I found out. I opted out to have the delivery in combined (J/P is already attached to the shaper/saw and slider already mounted) in one piece since I have the suitable door openings to my walkout basement shop. One thing misleading was the opening requirements. The measurement they report does NOT include the appendages (handles, mounted attachment points etc.). You have to remove them to fit through a 60" door even though reported width is less than that. I chose to rent a 16 foot truck instead of 24 or so as suggested. As big of a truck you can rent was the advice. The drop gate is not wide enough to rotate the crate on it. I hired a flatbed tow truck for $100 to move it from the box truck to my garage floor. It was a piece of cake and best spent $100. Once it is unmounted from the crate, after emptying the all the boxes stuffed around, a makeshift ramp from the hefty skid with the help of a pallet jack made it a one person job. It requires to experiment to place the jack just right to keep it nicely balanced. It required to burn some calories to push through the basement but found itself in the middle of the empty shop floor in few hours. It did not require much setting but the lack of "instructions" if you must have any to put things together can be extremely frustrating. Again, if you an read technical drawings, it is fairly easy. I took few quick reference measurements, started all the motors, etc. and called it a day.
Although I have 3-Phase supply at my house, I elected to get the 1-Phase version with 2050 slider. The way the saw brake works was nerving first till I found out how it works. :)
Slider toes out about 0.050" during the entire stroke of the slider, one end to other. The gap in between the cast iron top and slider is varying about 0.014" across the width of the cast from front to back (toeing out). When I measure the variation of toe out along the saw blade, it is 0.004". I think I can make this better. I squared the crosscut fence mounted on the slider using five-cut method with a 2x2' piece. A quick fine adjust resulted 0.0001" (yes, ten thousands) difference along the length of the cut of piece. I am not even sure if I should mess with the slider at this point.
Here and there, some quirkiness and quality issues but overall, I'd say, out of box, ready to work. I'd appreciate any comments about the meaning of slider toeing out of being 50 thousands.