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RE: Kick back question - Cecil - 03-28-2018
Best way to align fence:
This
![[Image: main_saw_gauge.jpg]](https://www.woodpeck.com/media/main_saw_gauge.jpg)
Found here. https://www.woodpeck.com/sawgauge.html
I made a clone. I found a 1" piece of steel dowel and rounded the ends so it would not mar the gauge slot. I put a 3/4" dado into a piece of hardwood. I screwed the dial gauge to the side of the hardwood. I already had a gauge.
If I do it again, I will cut a V and not a dado in the hardwood. Using the dowel takes up any slack one would get using a bar. However, you can use a 3/4" bar in the slot, as long as you push the bar tight against the slot wall before reading the gauge.
RE: Kick back question - ez-duzit - 03-28-2018
C--that will only align table top to blade.
RE: Kick back question - Lucky Irish - 03-29-2018
If you use it in the other miter slot you can align the blade to the slot, and then fence to slot.
-edit- Actually, if you use the left slot you can align the blade, drop it below the table, move the fence over and align the fence.
RE: Kick back question - AHill - 03-29-2018
(03-28-2018, 03:39 PM)Cecil Wrote: Best way to align fence:
This
Found here. https://www.woodpeck.com/sawgauge.html
I made a clone. I found a 1" piece of steel dowel and rounded the ends so it would not mar the gauge slot. I put a 3/4" dado into a piece of hardwood. I screwed the dial gauge to the side of the hardwood. I already had a gauge.
If I do it again, I will cut a V and not a dado in the hardwood. Using the dowel takes up any slack one would get using a bar. However, you can use a 3/4" bar in the slot, as long as you push the bar tight against the slot wall before reading the gauge.
I have an A-Line-It tool. I think it's a tad more versatile than the Woodpeckers tool.
http://www.in-lineindustries.com/products/a-line-it-system/
![[Image: ILALINEITKIT1-2.jpg]](http://www.in-lineindustries.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ILALINEITKIT1-2.jpg)
RE: Kick back question - Cooler - 03-29-2018
I can borrow a dial indicator from our shop. I will try to come up with a way to check using the dial indicator.
RE: Kick back question - stav - 03-29-2018
A caliper and a stick will work just as well. This is what I use. (Apologies for the size, the insert pic thing will not allow me to adjust it)
![[Image: dialcaliper.jpg]](https://images.woodmagazine.mdpcdn.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero__1350x900/public/image/2016/07/27/dialcaliper.jpg)
RE: Kick back question - Cooler - 03-29-2018
(03-29-2018, 08:01 AM)stav Wrote: A caliper and a stick will work just as well. This is what I use. (Apologies for the size, the insert pic thing will not allow me to adjust it)
I have a caliper. This assumes that the miter slot aligns with the fence. An easy thing to check.
RE: Kick back question - Cooler - 03-29-2018
As an aside I would like to mention that "pain is good".
The cut on my hand never really hurt. When I went to the emergency room the nurse asked me to rate the pain on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being unbearable.
I replied, "Probably a 3; maybe a 2".
It never really hurt. Even after the stitches it never really hurt.
So, yesterday a salesman came into our office. I forgot about the stitches (because it never really hurt) and I shook his hand. I popped two stitches and it started to bleed a bit again.
So nature gives us pain to make us stop doing stupid things. A little more pain and I would have remembered the stitches and not shook the salesman's hand.
Oh, well.
RE: Kick back question - stav - 03-29-2018
(03-29-2018, 09:36 AM)Cooler Wrote: I have a caliper. This assumes that the miter slot aligns with the fence. An easy thing to check.
That is kind of the idea. Use the miter slot as a fixed point for aligning everything. The blade and the fence. I don't know what kind of fence you have but all of them that I have had were adjustable.
RE: Kick back question - Cecil - 03-29-2018
(03-29-2018, 09:36 AM)Cooler Wrote: I have a caliper. This assumes that the miter slot aligns with the fence. An easy thing to check.
Actually you align the blade with the miter slot, then you also align the fence with the miter slot. The miter slot becomes the common reference for both alignments.
Note, when you align the blade, be sure to use the same tooth, front and back. I mark the tooth I am using with a red marker.