New Tools Arrived!!!!

[John Harden]

It took four months, but they arrived safe and sound on Friday!!! Had me a bit worried as they had to change trucks twice on their way to California from Delaware offering two opportunities for accidental damage. Trucking company came through though as they arrived without a scratch despite the box with the slider showing some signs of damage.

Two, 4'X8' pallets, a third one with the power feeder and other accessories, and a fourth with the sliding table.

Forklift with large pneumatic tires was a good choice for my suburban street and concrete drive way.

Delivery service does a lot of these in SoCal and it shows. He was well prepared and knew what he was doing. No way I could have done this on my own. Saw/Shaper weighs 1800 pounds and the Jointer/Planer another 1200. Ouch!!!!

[John Harden]

Jointer/Planer was next off the truck.

We had to hoist it up to install the mobility kit. This was a royal pain and took over an hour. Excellent design as it'll easily support the weight, but very difficult to work your hands into the small cavities in the back to thread a nut onto the bolts. That's my only complaint. Once it was done, it was very easy to roll into position.

[John Harden]

That primed us for tackling the saw. Much easier to install the mobility kit as there was easy access underneath once we blocked it up high enough to get our hands under it. Still kind of unnerving to have your hands under that much dead weight. Having the forklift with straps still attached made me a lot more comfortable.

Next up was installing the slider and the beginning of the calibration. This took awhile, in part because I was sick and moving kind of slow.

Wound up having to recalibrate the slider, but this wasn't too bad. It now runs true (flat without rise and fall) to .004" over it's complete, 9 foot path of travel past the dial indicators. I'll live with that!!!!!

[Steve Roxberg]

I'm speechless, and green with envy.

Wow! Nice equipment.

[John Harden]

Jointer calbration will be a lot simpler. Tables are dead flat side to side and on the diagonals. I need to make a few minor adjustments to pull down the front of the right table, but that's an easy one I'll do tomorrow.

Plug heads are installed on both units and they fire up just fine. Still need to modify the dust collection to reach each of them. That 4" pipe behind the J/P was for a router table that's been moved. A new, 6" line will drop straight down from the ceiling and will be reduced to a 5" hose that fits over the port.

Saw/Shaper is a little more involved. It has four ports. Main port for the saw, a large port for the shaper fence (it'll share the hose for the saw), smaller third one for the shaper and a fourth that attaches to the blade guard/riving knife. That last one will need to drop down from the overhead.

I'll need to work on that this week and next weekend.

I also still need to check and possibly calibrate the crosscut and outrigger on the saw and to install the power feeder and Big Lift device to make lifting the power feeder manageable.

All in all, I"m very happy with them!!!!!!

Hope you enjoy the photos!!!

Regards,

John

[gary Zimmel]

Now those are a couple of heavy duty machines...

Congrats John!

[Mike Palmowski]

WOWSERS!!! Congrats on the purchase! Is this a hobby or are you running a buisness?

[Joe Leigh]

Originally Posted by Mike Palmowski

WOWSERS!!! Congrats on the purchase! Is this a hobby or are you running a buisness?

My thoughts exactly! That is some heavy artillery for a home shop! NICE!!

[Rod Sheridan]

Very nice John, have fun.

Did you purchase the slot mortiser for the planer?

On another subject, what's the motorcycle in the background?

Regards, Rod.

P.S. Nice packaging, my Hammer came with the same heavy duty pallets including the steel beams, and 6 billion staples on the plastic. I swear the guy in the shipping department at Felder gets paid by the kilogram of staples used.

I noticed that just like Sep, you opted for power drive and the Euro comfort guard. Glad to see that you were paying attention during the videos :-)

[John Harden]

Originally Posted by Mike Palmowski

WOWSERS!!! Congrats on the purchase! Is this a hobby or are you running a buisness?

Its a home shop. WW is a hobby. I went through a progression. Home Depot benchtop saw, Sears Contractors saw, then in 1997 a PM-66 that I just sold last month.

Regards,

John

[Rod Sheridan]

Originally Posted by John Harden

Its a home shop. WW is a hobby. I went through a progression. Home Depot benchtop saw, Sears Contractors saw, then in 1997 a PM-66 that I just sold last month.

Regards,

John

Strangely familiar, contractor saw, General 650, Hammer B3 Winner.

Wish I had room for your Felder........Rod.

[John Harden]

Originally Posted by Rod Sheridan

Very nice John, have fun.

Did you purchase the slot mortiser for the planer?

On another subject, what's the motorcycle in the background?

Regards, Rod.

P.S. Nice packaging, my Hammer came with the same heavy duty pallets including the steel beams, and 6 billion staples on the plastic. I swear the guy in the shipping department at Felder gets paid by the kilogram of staples used.

I noticed that just like Sep, you opted for power drive and the Euro comfort guard. Glad to see that you were paying attention during the videos :-)

LOL!!!!! Yeah, must have been the same guy who applied the plastic sheeting to mine. So many staples that my neighbor didn't even want them to burn in his fire pit. I just Sawzall'd them up and tossed them.

No, I didn't get the mortiser for the J/P. Just don't think I'd ever use it. I took a WW class awhile back where we used a MultiRouter quite a lot, which is an awesome machine. Even with that, I still prefer my Leigh FMT for repetitive M&T work. Door makers really like the mortising machines I hear, which makes sense. You can cantilever heavy timbers off the table while mortising them. Can't do that with an FMT.

Yeah, I got the Power Drive on both units. Very nice to just turn a dial, particularly when switching from saw to shaper and back. You can raise one blade while lowering another. Very nice on the J/P too when raising or lowering the planer bed.

Bike is a BMW, GS Adventure. Lot's of fun!!!

Regards,

John

[Rod Sheridan]

Thanks John, as you can tell from my avatar I like BMW's.

I have an R90/6, Diann has an R60/7.

Have fun with the new machinery........Rod.

[Kent A Bathurst]

John - that's cold, man. COLD. You post photos of a truckload of brand-new Felder equipment arriving at your house??

What did I ever do to you? Whatever it was, I apologize. Uncle.

[Doug Shepard]

Sweet. That's some awfully nice hobby horsies in your stable. Enjoy.