Scheppach ts4000 (?) saw on eBay

[Scrit]

Just a heads-up. There's a Scheppach ts 4000 (?) saw on eBay here. The vendor's description is all to pot and I'm not 100% certain if it's the ts4000 or the later ts4010, but ist has the sliding carraige and right hand extension so it might be worth a look, especially if you're in the north. One of these should easily go on a pallet and Palletline would ask about £60 to anywhere in the UK.

Scrit

 

[tim]

Thanks for the info Scrit.

What's quite interesting here is that both the current owner has bid 3 times and another bidder has bid against himself 3 times in an hour!

Cheers

Tim

 

[Scrit]

The current owner???? :shock: How do you reckon that? :? I must say I hadn't looked at the bidding, the item just came up in one of my periodic hunts....

 

[mel]

think your right scrit in assuming that the saw is the later model ts 4010
ive got the 4000 and the power lead is in a different place . at the back. not the front
id also question the cutting depth , if any body is interested in this saw
as the 4000 is nearer 90mm than 260mm
obviously hes selling it for a mate
mel

 

[Scrit]

How do you rate the saw?

 

[mel]

very nice to use , good and accurate , a good stable feel to it .
a lot better than the old elu sawking 3151 i had before .
which went to my neighbour . { i like it when he makes a noise , i dont feel half as bad }
just noticed that the ebay saw has not got the micro adjust on the rip fence , so must be the later one
the bonus with the one i got, about a month ago. was that he threw me in a large industrial extractor , twin motor jobbie . which i built a box underneath it so i could shovel the waste into the fire or bags. bonus isnt really the word as on there own they are nearly £500
what saw do you use ???
mel

 

[Scrit]

Ermm, Altendorf F45 3.2m - but then I slice up a lot of MDF

 

[mel]

top of the range
cream of the crop
comes to mind
or simply WOW !!!
mel

 

[tim]

The current owner???? Shocked How do you reckon that?

Well may not be the owner, but a pal there of. Why else would you out bid yourself three times?

Cheers

Tim

 

[Scrit]

top of the range
cream of the crop
comes to mind
or simply WOW !!!
mel

Big barsteward that takes up a lot of space, necessary evil, aircraft carrier is what comes to mine - at times..... :wink:

 

[RogerS]

Looks a handy saw. Think I may have a punt at it

 

[tibbs]

Well may not be the owner, but a pal there of. Why else would you out bid yourself three times?

Are you sure you're reading the bidding history right ? Ebay presents the history in order of maximum bid amounts but you need to interpret it in date order to see who bid what maximum amount when & then infer from that who was the high-bidder at any moment in time - it looks to me as though there are/were several people having a bidding war, treating it like it was a live auction & upping their maximum bid once it had been exceeded by someone else.

You can't actually outbid yourself as such - you can only increase your maximum bid amount which is the limit to which ebay will bid for you if someone else bids higher than the current bid.

Richard

 

[RogerS]

Interesting this. I see someone asked if it comes with a micro-adjuster and it does as the vendor has confirmed. Delivery poses a teensy wee problem as although, as Scrit suggested, it could be palleted up, I don't think that 2.4m sliding carriage will go on a pallet.

But then I got to thinking and did some re-reading and came across this very sensible post from SquareCircle and the points he makes there make a lot of sense to me. I seem to be quite happy cutting sheet material on top of a sacrificial board lain on the floor and using the Festool. I've got John Elliotts MFT to play with and so maybe I don't need that lovely, chunky, substantial, big, cast-iron, wonderful table saw :?

Or would I get nice repeatable parallel sided cuts with the Scheppach...with the minimum fuss and bother?

 

[Mike.C]

IMHO it is not a ts4010, as it does not have a cast iron table. In fact i do not even think that it is a ts4000 either. My money is on a ts 2500.

If i remember correctly both the 4010 and 4000 have got a black window to the right of the rise and fall wheel, which shows you by how much the blade is being adjusted.
Also unlike the 2500 this one hand wheel allows you to adjust both the rise and fall of the blade and the tilt.
As you can see in the picture on Ebay,the rise and fall and the tilt are adjusted using 2 separate hand wheels.

Cheers

Mike

 

[mel]

well spotted mike c
it would appear you are correct as a quick search revealed a ts2500
scrit
it would seem you started quite a storm here
the views have gone from 460 to over 600 in the space of a few hours
bet the sellers getting all excited for a last minute flurry of loads of bids
can i smell varnish. wheres wolf
mel

 

[tim]

Its definitely a 2500 - but with a 2m sliding carriage instead of the 1.4m standard. Its also likely to be at least 4 years old because Sheppach stopped making the extending side table in the same pressed aluminium as the main table and switched to steel.

Cheers

Tim

 

[Chris Knight]

The TS4010 did not have a cast iron table so very long ago - it was only introduced the year before last. However, this is certainly not the TS4010 which has saw blade height and tilt functions incorporated in one handle.

 

[RogerS]

Thanks guys - very, very informative and think I'll keep my pennies for another day

 

[Mike.C]

Chris wrote:

The TS4010 did not have a cast iron table so very long ago - it was only introduced the year before last.

Your right, Scheppach did introduce the cast iron table a few years ago, and at the same time they changed the model number from the TS4000 to the TS4010.
Around about that time they also added a cast iron table to TS2500 and changed the model number to the TS2500ci.

Cheers

Mike

 

[Chris Knight]

Mike,
My TS 4010 had an ali table before I replaced it with CI once CI became available - it was/is a 4010 and not a 4000. It does have the pressed steel extension table that they started putting on the IXES stuff.