John Myers
04-26-2009, 3:27 PM
I purchased a Driftmaster and installed it on my Laguna LT18 bandsaw. It seemed to work pretty good with the fence in the short edge configuration. But with the fence in the tall position, it was slightly out of square with the table, and the Driftmaster platform is about 1/16-inch high of the table.
I kept thinking that I needed to add some shims, but then I checked the squareness of the fence to the actual Driftmaster platform - it was dead on square. So then I realized that the problem wasn't with the fence, or the Driftmaster, but with the holes on the side of the table that the fence attached to. They were just a tad bit too high, and perhaps not quite parallel to each other.
So now what do I do? File the holes on the side of the table down a bit? That seems like the easiest solution.
I kept thinking that I needed to add some shims, but then I checked the squareness of the fence to the actual Driftmaster platform - it was dead on square. So then I realized that the problem wasn't with the fence, or the Driftmaster, but with the holes on the side of the table that the fence attached to. They were just a tad bit too high, and perhaps not quite parallel to each other.
So now what do I do? File the holes on the side of the table down a bit? That seems like the easiest solution.