I leave my outrigger on at this point, too...both because I use it for more than cutting things, believe it or not, and because if I take it off, I need a place to put it and it's darn heavy, too! LOL Before I reduced the right side space requirements for the saw, I more or less had to take the outrigger off unless I was actually using it, but that meant crawling under it to get to the operator position from the other end of the shop. Taking 16" off the right side solved that for me.
Last piece of advice: the manual says not to adjust the position of the nuts on the threaded rods that attach the fence guide bar to the saw. Follow that instruction, no matter what. It will take a LONG time to align your fence if you move those nuts. DAMHIKT.
This is extremely sound advice which I wasn't aware of when I got my saw and paid dearly for in angst getting it back to correct. It's aligned at the factory.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...