Hammer K3 Sliding Table Saw Calibration

Sliding table saw calibration

[theogriengl]

Thanks for creating this video! I received my K3 winner 14 days ago. The manual is structured rather simply, but with your presentation and explanation and it becomes a lot easier. Thanks again and greetings from Austria: Theo

[MoGhotbi]

Thank you for this great video. I now plan to spend the weekend calibrating my saw before beginning a cabinet project.

[mik]

i found this INCREDIBLY helpful and i will be calibrating tonight

[MikkelFilskov]

Really good work on the video Preston - Im looking forward to calibrating my own shortly 🙏🏼

[paulmcguiness]

Very interesting. I have almost the same machine. My problems were with making consistent 45-degree cuts. For the 90-degree cuts there is a hard stop with a cam or screw against the fence (like you show in your video), but 45 degrees is just lining up against a mark on the sliding table. I found it practically impossible to line it up the same way every time. I recently borrowed the graduated mitre-fence attachement that can be locked out for certain angles and this has improved things a lot. It also means you don't need the fiddly cam/screw stop. Overall, I am very happy with my Hammer K3 - but wish I had the workshop space that you have :-)

[myatix]

Great video! Thanks! I can see you have upgraded the rip fence!

[williamparker]

I am getting my new K-3 Winner next week.This video will be a giant help!

[SrRickyBobby]

Great content as always, love the shop looking awesome. Shop tour video some time?

[wguerra]

Really great video ! I purchased the crosscut fence adjust (7:03) using the code 503-168.

[JBalfe]

Would be interested to know how you deal with the sliding table being coplanar with the cast top...or do you have the sliding table proud of the cast as felder recommends? When you hand tighten the bolts to get the sliding table parallel does that affect the height?

[harriblomqvist]

Awesome video, this is just what I was looking for, thanks 👍

[thomaaz]

hey preston, thanks for this video; i plan on buying this machine. if i'm correct there is no actual screws or anthing to set the runout/toe-out as you show around 4:00th minute (adjustment screws are only for setting the sliding table height if i'm not mistaken?). Thanks!

[chrisswartzwelder]

Great video. How high is the sliding table above the cast iron table? I have seen they want 2 thousandths of a inch. When you said hand tighten the 6 bolts when you adjust the sliding table for coplanar to blade are those the ones that raise and lower the table or the ones that are in the saw it self. I was showing to adjust the fence to the sliding table for squareness. And that’s always worked for me. I have really been dreading to do this procedure.

[horacionochetto]

Great video. I am in the process of tuning my K3 as well and I realized I have a hallow in the case iron. I understand this is an older video, but several people here have said they have Hammer K3 machines. When measuring for the cast iron flatness, what sort of tolerance are you guys getting and what tolerance is allowed by Hammer/Felder?

[tilmanbauer]

That will help me a great deal when I get my K3, hopefully at the beginning of next month! Thanks! One question/request: when you tilt your blade to 45 degrees, will it still be parallel to the sliding table? If the axis of tilting is not perfectly parallel to the blade, tilting will throw alignment off. That affects the quality of the cut, of course. I’d be curious how this more tricky calibration is done on this saw!

[danielstoscup]

Hey there Preston thanks for the video, can you share with us where you got that clamp used to hold workpieces to the sliding table?

[zotyar]

Cool instructional video! What happened with the old shop-refit video's? Has been deleted? Thanks

[sarajern]

Hi Preston you are making great videos.
I have a B3 basic and just bought two small extension tables to put at the front and the back of the saw table. I want to mount the original included extension table on the side of the sliding table like you have it, but I can't figure it out how to fasten it. Been in contact with my felder agent here in Sweden but no one can tell how it will be mounted. Are you able to explain it for me?
Many thanks
Sara

[speedrrracer]

A seriously great video, thanks for making it.
At 1:40, you show the 2 middle bolts for the sliding table bed, and your K3 looks like my C3 -- no obvious way to access the bottom nut to loosen them. How were you able to access the bottom 2 nuts on those 2 middle bolts?

[cindypark]

Thanks so much for your detailed explanations. I’m thinking of getting the Hammer K3 basic but will have to remove the sliding table and potentially some other pieces to get the machine into my basement. Do you have any thoughts on how difficult it would be to strip the machine down to the chassis or even to remove the motor to lighten the weight of the machine? Thanks.