Scheppach Basato 3 blade guides

rog · 10 Mar 2009

Hi, I have a basato 3 which is playing up, the blade guides are shot and its become inacurate.. Does anyone know if the axminster upgrade will fit ?

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... E#catprods

Boz62 · 10 Mar 2009

Hi,
They certainly won't fit "as is". From the look of the Axi ones I suspect you'd have to remove the rear clamp part of the castings and make some sort of interface to the chassis/post brackets on the Basato (I'm looking at the blown up diagram in the manual for mine). I think it would be a gamble and see how it goes. Certainly a lot of metalwork hacking needed

You might get better mileage making replacement "inserts" in the existing guide frames and use diy block guides? Easiest may be just to replace with Scheppach ones... I don't know how expensive their spares are though.
Good luck
Boz

John. B · 10 Mar 2009

Rog,
when you say the guides are shot, what exactly do you mean by the word shot I've had a Basato 3 for a few years and the only trouble I've had,
was Graunch marks on the rear guide from the back of the blade.
I take it out, flatten the face on some emery cloth on the table, remount it and carry on. What's the problem with yours?

John. B

toysandboats · 10 Mar 2009

Hello Rog,

like John B, I used to flatten mine when they wore and eventually I got a new set direct from NMA Tools in Yorkshire.
However, since I fitted a "Meat & Fish" blade from Sharpquip, I've had very little wear.
I now suspect that I was pushing the wood too hard and causing the damage to the guide wheels through using lower quality blades.

David Ward

RogerS · 10 Mar 2009

I'll be watching this with interest as I've long thought that the design of the rear guide is the most naff engineering design since...well, I'm metaphor-less. I've got the Basato 5 and guess the guides are similar (sound like it). Only I can go one better! I get sparks off of mine from all that lovely metal on metal graunching. Also Sprach Zarathustra Durch Technik.