So I've got one of those sliding table attachments - not a large Excalibur style but the smaller cantilevered ones like sawstop has. Mine is a Craftex, the equivalent of Grizzly in Canada. I am also very adamant about good dust collection,and would like a setup where even the smallest operations have dust collected at the source.
I also have an incra mitre gauge, and combined with the cast iron top of the saw, aluminum sliding table, the whole setup is very slippery.
I've put the incra gauge at the "head" of the sliding table, and I must say... It feels a heck of a lot safer to operate because you start cutting standing next to the blade, as opposed to behind it. So I want to get closer to a "true" slider, where the table slides right next to the blade.
My first thought is to put a runner on a sheet of plywood, as a kind of auxiliary table that would be attached to the sliding table. I could dado a miter slot in it to use with a Fritz and Franz style jig, and the whole thing could come off if I need to rip things longer than the range of the sliding table.
I guess I'm wondering - has anyone tried/done/seen this before? If so, how did you like it? Or am I barking fully up the wrong tree? I've tried dust shrouds on crosscut sleds before, but they are cumbersome and clunky and I'm not a fan. I'd like a true small slider some day but I will have to earn the funds to buy it first!