just check out my shop tour on this site. I have a heck of a lot of MM stuff in my 625sf shop. I even have the MM S35 10.5ft slider to boot. Am I tight at times...yes and no. When I am in assembly mode sometimes but more often that not I find the capacity and use of a slider far out ways the space useage issues. In my shop the trick to efficient space management is to set up work surfaces the correspond to the machine surfaces and at the same time over lap each other. For example my bandsaw (which just so happens to be a MM24) is on a slight platform which allows it to clear the work bench and FS41 behind it and then clears the S35 in front of it. This way I can easily resaw 8ft pieces of lumber. I added a outfeed table to my S35 that also doubles as my router table.....and so and so on. My advice is plan out the shop. Think of where everything goes and how it interacts with each other.
It sounds like you are going to be getting a lot of great equipment Darryl. Many professional cabinet makers would like to have all that. Have you scetched up plans for how you plan to fit it all in. If so, you might post your sc3etch here for advice.
Yes it will fit. I have the MiniMax CU410 Elite combo which has a similar saw mechanism. I also have a web page showing how I fit it, two bandsaws, a drum sander, full-size lathe, drill press, radial arm saw, etc. etc. along with one car in a two car... oops... in my studio. see www.plesums.com/wood/shop/carfit.html
Putting the car in is sort of a parlor trick... something I only do when we are out of town. I have to move all the work in process and movable machines out of the way - not something I want to do every day. I put up that web page because I got tired of people telling me that you can't get a combo in a garage... Yes, you can, and I do. It is tight, but it works, and could coexist with a car for a hobby woodworker.
I only have single phase power... and rarely sense the machine straining. I hear you can stack 4 sheets of plywood and cut them all at once, so maybe if I were working that way, I would start running short of power. No strain cutting 8/4 hickory, oak, or walnut.
I have pretty much the same amount maybe a couple of more but I do not have a lot of free assembly space. The way I have countered this is by A) having a combo jointer/planer that also is my mortising machine B) The J/P is the onlt mobile machine in my shop so I can move it if need be. I did need to do this early this year in order to work on a BIG entertainment center. I know it is not the "ideal" situation to have a combo J/P but in my setup I have not one single regret. It is a great sapce saver and a great machine! I doubt I would have been able to afford separate machines of the same quality or performance. In the end my J/P is three machines in one.
