In doing research on Felder/Minimax sliders, I found a couple things I did not like on the Minimax. Hope you guys have some comments.
On the Minimax (I can't remember if it was SC2C or SC3C):
- When blade is at exactly 90 degrees and you can adjust your measurement guides to be exact so that when you set your fence/stop at 12", you get a perfect 12" cut. What the video explained was that the Minimax does not have a true trunnion. Instead it has a pivot point. This means when you tilt the blade to something like 45 degrees, it throws off the distance to the fence/stop by as much as 3/16". If you cut 12" at 45 degrees, your piece is now 12-3/16" or 11-13/16" depending on if you are using the crosscut fence or the rip fence.
- The out-of-the box Minimax had an alignment problem on the crosscut fence angle strip. It was off by a partial degree. When you adjusted the crosscut fence to 20 degrees, the actual could be 20.4 degrees.
Does anyone know if the Felder equipment has had these types of problems? Do the Felder saws have a true trunnion or is it a pivot point like the Minimax? Is this pivot point design comment in industry sliding tables saws? I would hate to have to constantly do tape/ruler measurements against a tilted blade when setting up a cut.