Originally Posted by
David Buchhauser
Hi Mike,
I agree completely! What a joy to use, plus it adds a great degree of safety by keeping the hands away from the saw blade. To date, I have been setting my miter fence to 90 degrees using a machined insert for the miter slot along with a large framing square (see photo 1). I thought about your comment on using the dial indicator - so I thought I'd try that approach to see how accurate my original method is. I used a large precision ground fixturing block banked against the miter fence and mounted the dial indicator to the table saw surface. The result is that I am measuring around 0.005" to 0.006" per foot of slider travel. So for my current setup with 36" length of cut, this would give me around 0.015" to 0.018" of taper over the 36" cut distance. This is not bad for most applications, but it is easy enough to go ahead with the final adjustment and "dial it in" for the best accuracy. I would be interested to see photos of your dial indicator setup - perhaps you have an easier method.
Thanks,
David
David
I use the same basic method to set the fence, as you do, but I use a large precision triangle made by Brian Lamb.
When I first set it up I also made sure the slider by itself was running parallel to the blade in basically the same manner. That took a bit of doing as I had to make sure the slider base portion was parallel to the blade, and that it was running even with the table saw surface.
I know some folks had problems with the JessEm Mast-R-Slide, but luckily I never did. I've actually been looking for a second one, or something similar for y second table saw.
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