Not going perfectly so far.
Just bought base unit and sliding table. Open box and the first thing that fell out was the locking pin, clearly not been in the saw for some time. Next tried to raise the blade - absolutely stuck. No way could the knob be turned by hand. Had to use a rubber wrench to get it moving, with quite a degree of force. Next tweaked sliding mitre which was initially incredibly stiff (why are instructions for these things always so poor - trial and error & common sense a million times better than the instructions).
Attached sliding table. Levelled it up.
Found piece of wood to test on.
Turned on saw green and flashing red -> solid red. Repeated a couple of times. Looked undersaw to open access to blade and cartridge to try re-seating cartridge. Not immediately obvious how to do this without reading ludicrous instructions. Noticed quite a large area of scuffing on the plastic underside of the saw. Needed to watch youtube.
Got bored came inside.
Anyone know a good dealer for Mafell?
Anyone else had similar? Should I press on? I suppose it's only two grands worth of essentially posh job site saw. I had expected a slightly better experience for my cash.
Cheers
Just bought base unit and sliding table. Open box and the first thing that fell out was the locking pin, clearly not been in the saw for some time. Next tried to raise the blade - absolutely stuck. No way could the knob be turned by hand. Had to use a rubber wrench to get it moving, with quite a degree of force. Next tweaked sliding mitre which was initially incredibly stiff (why are instructions for these things always so poor - trial and error & common sense a million times better than the instructions).
Attached sliding table. Levelled it up.
Found piece of wood to test on.
Turned on saw green and flashing red -> solid red. Repeated a couple of times. Looked undersaw to open access to blade and cartridge to try re-seating cartridge. Not immediately obvious how to do this without reading ludicrous instructions. Noticed quite a large area of scuffing on the plastic underside of the saw. Needed to watch youtube.
Got bored came inside.
Anyone know a good dealer for Mafell?
Anyone else had similar? Should I press on? I suppose it's only two grands worth of essentially posh job site saw. I had expected a slightly better experience for my cash.
Cheers