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   JohnWW | Nov 17, 2007 02:05am | #1

   If nothing is bent, warped, or worn out, both the fence and the bar should be checked, then just adjusting one of the two large black plastic threaded plugs that are on the front of the  fence will bring it back into alignment.

   John White, Yestermorrow School, Vermont 

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   rm | Nov 17, 2007 02:50am | #2

   Thanks John,

   I had tried that - it seemed to tighten the fence so that it would not move smoothly across the rail.   I'll take another look tonight.  

   Ray

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   JerryPacMan | Nov 17, 2007 05:44pm | #3

   The Unifence is very easy to adjust in all planes.  If you tighten one or both set screws too much the fence will be hard to move and lock.  Just back out both set screws about 1/2 a turn and go from their.

   If your miter slot is aligned to the blade I will tell you how I adjusted my Unifence.  I moved the edge of the fence over the left edge of the right miter slot.  Then I adjusted the fence so that it was about 1/16" away from the left edge of the miter slot at the far end of the fence. I found that this measurement was not critical, just have the fence skewed away from the blade a small amount and using the miter slot as a guide it was easy to see.

    

   Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .

   Edited 11/17/2007 11:20 am ET by JerryPacMan

   Edited 11/17/2007 11:21 am ET by JerryPacMan

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   JohnWW | Nov 20, 2007 12:00am | #4

   Ray,

   As suggested by the other post, backing off both screws equally will loosen the fit on the rail without changing the alignment with the blade, though you should check it again after backing off the screws just to be sure.

   Align the fence to be parallel to the blade, don't depend on the miter slot to be parallel to the blade, unless you have recently adjusted the miter slot alignment. 

   I disagree with the previous post suggesting that you slightly toe out the far end of the fence, you are much better off to have everything parallel, the saw works best that way.

   John White

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   rm | Nov 22, 2007 08:59am | #5

   Hello John and Jerry,

   Success.....!!  Thank you both for your input.  Aligning the fence to the blade was definitely the trick, however, as I have been able to tune things to near perfect with no zing whatsoever to be heard or swirl marks left on the edge of my work.

   Thanks again.