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   jazzdogg | Apr 25, 2005 10:54pm | #1

   Hi Bioman,

   Looks like you'll be busy for a while!

   Can't tell what you bought from the pictures - how about a list?

   BTW, if one of your new tools happens to be a Laguna table saw, I've got a warning for you.

   Good luck,

    

   -Jazzdogg-

   Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

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   Bioman | Apr 30, 2005 01:55pm | #2

   Sounds ominous.  Actually it's a Knapp, not a Laguna.  The Laguna branded sliders are being made by Griggio.  The list is:

   Knapp Profi-T 10' foot slider with tilting shaper 3 phase 6HP

   SAC 16" jointer with ~120" bed, 3 phase 6HP

   Griggio 24" planer, 3 phase 12HP

   Gentech 25HP phase converter

   Existing equipment includes a Laguna 18" BS, POS Taiwanese drill press, Performax 16/32 sander, Wilke machinery dust collector, baldor grinder and assorted hand and manual power tools.

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   jazzdogg | Apr 30, 2005 07:50pm | #3

   Bioman,

   Thanks for the update. Sounds like quite an investment! I hope you'll post pictures of the stuff you make with these new toys over at Knots.

    -Jazzdogg-

   Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

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   barn | May 04, 2005 05:25pm | #4

   I just got done replacing the metric motor on my 12" sac jointer. WHAT A NIGHTMARE?  It was a single phase 3 h.p.  None to be found anywhere.     Even SAC can't get the exact metric motor that came on the machine.    So I had to replace it with a standard Leeson motor.     Then I had to replace and rewire a new starter for that motor.    Two weeks later and   $800  later i'm finally back in business!  I hope you have better luck with your three phase.           Oh,  and another thing.   The fence on my machine was polished aluminum.      When I ran wood against the fence I would end up with bits of aluminum in the wood.     I called and complained and was sent a new fence of the same design and got the same results.   So I had a piece of stainless steel cut the same size then laminated it to the fence with countersunk screws into drilled and tapped holes.             Good luck with yours!!

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   Bioman | May 04, 2005 06:28pm | #5

   If that happens with mine, I may just send the aluminum portion out to be hard anodized.  Thanks for the heads up. 

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   barn | May 05, 2005 11:35pm | #6

   Hey,   I did not mean to come across totaly negative.   Other than that the machine seems to be well made. Especially in that the tables, both infeed and outfeed, are totally adjustable so that one can acheive a perfect alignment.    I do miss the rabbeting option of my old 6" though.         And another thing.  if this is your first sliding saw, you won't be disappointed.    I got a Paeloni  102" slider second hand a few years ago.  There's no better way to cut panels!  And not to mention straight edgd an extremely curved board with the right blade.    Mine is just a single phase 5.5 h.p.  Which means that the scoring blade shares the same motor with the main blade via a belt.  But the scoring blade doesn't require very much power.     Have fun!

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   WillGeorge | May 11, 2005 11:44pm | #7

   single phase 5.5 h.p. !!  DAMN!  Gee ya' could use THAT fer a elevator lift!