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Copied this from my gloat thread, because I think it belongs here more.
I had an old shop fox fence on my table saw. It was FANCY! Wheels, all kinds of adjustments you can make, it wouldn't come up off the table if you used hold downs. Like I said FANCY!.
But, it was hard to adjust, it liked to chew up the tape measure on it, it didn't really want to stay put.
So when BW was here, I realized how bad it was finally, so I ordered up a new BC30 Biesemeyer 30" rails fence.
Should have done it years ago. Biggest challenge installing it was getting past drilling holes in the cast iron.
That was too darn easy. 8 Holes and I'm pretty much ready to roll.
Need to make a little table to fill in the side on the right, but wow, what a difference in ease of use and adjustment.
I guess I've never really used a nice fence before, so it's one of those, "I didn't know what I was missing" kind of things.
So easy to adjust, cause there was nothing TO adjust, well, really. I pulled out the dial indicator and I have it darn near parallel to the miter slot. I let it go about 3 thousands wide at the back end.
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I had an old shop fox fence on my table saw. It was FANCY! Wheels, all kinds of adjustments you can make, it wouldn't come up off the table if you used hold downs. Like I said FANCY!.
But, it was hard to adjust, it liked to chew up the tape measure on it, it didn't really want to stay put.
So when BW was here, I realized how bad it was finally, so I ordered up a new BC30 Biesemeyer 30" rails fence.
Should have done it years ago. Biggest challenge installing it was getting past drilling holes in the cast iron.
That was too darn easy. 8 Holes and I'm pretty much ready to roll.
Need to make a little table to fill in the side on the right, but wow, what a difference in ease of use and adjustment.
I guess I've never really used a nice fence before, so it's one of those, "I didn't know what I was missing" kind of things.
So easy to adjust, cause there was nothing TO adjust, well, really. I pulled out the dial indicator and I have it darn near parallel to the miter slot. I let it go about 3 thousands wide at the back end.
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