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08-02-2019, 5:26 PM
So I'm thrilled to have a beautiful, new-to-me Minimax FS41 Elite S jointer/planer thanks to another Creeker. Boy is that a step up from my well-loved Delta machines! The planed surface that comes out of it is astonishing. Although the thing is the size of an aircraft carrier its total footprint is actually smaller than my previous 6" jointer/13" planer. It's given me a few critical extra inches at key points in the shop. Delivery was an adventure, I should probably write that up as a cautionary tale. Upgrades to dust collection and installation of a rotary phase converter accompanied the new J/P, so it's been a week of upgrades in the shop.
Unfortunately the user manual went missing in transit, and there are a couple of things I haven't been able to figure out. (and more, like using the mortising attachment, I haven't even thought about yet) I'm trying to get one from SCM, but that is turning out to be a challenge-- they've sent me the parts list instead of the instructions twice now, and promised to email the correct manual yesterday, but it hasn't shown up. The parts list shows at least 10 different numbers for "manuale istruzioni" (different languages maybe?) but I can't even try to order one because so far SCM won't give me an account on their parts web site. I'm sure it will all work out eventually, but I'm impatient.
Istruzione in Italiano would be fine, I've been working on learning it for the last three years and it would be good practice, but the pictograms have me stumped. In particular, what does the circled knob do? Trial and error have shown me at least some of what the rest of them do. Is there a shortcut for lowering the planer table for switchover-- something like click the button twice to have it drop the table? There's a second start button on the back of the machine, does it do something different to the one on the front?
413605
Also I'd love to switch the readouts from english to metric, but have no clue how to accomplish that.
Cheers!
Unfortunately the user manual went missing in transit, and there are a couple of things I haven't been able to figure out. (and more, like using the mortising attachment, I haven't even thought about yet) I'm trying to get one from SCM, but that is turning out to be a challenge-- they've sent me the parts list instead of the instructions twice now, and promised to email the correct manual yesterday, but it hasn't shown up. The parts list shows at least 10 different numbers for "manuale istruzioni" (different languages maybe?) but I can't even try to order one because so far SCM won't give me an account on their parts web site. I'm sure it will all work out eventually, but I'm impatient.
Istruzione in Italiano would be fine, I've been working on learning it for the last three years and it would be good practice, but the pictograms have me stumped. In particular, what does the circled knob do? Trial and error have shown me at least some of what the rest of them do. Is there a shortcut for lowering the planer table for switchover-- something like click the button twice to have it drop the table? There's a second start button on the back of the machine, does it do something different to the one on the front?
413605
Also I'd love to switch the readouts from english to metric, but have no clue how to accomplish that.
Cheers!