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   JohnWW | Jun 02, 2006 07:35pm | #1

   This is a design flaw that Biesemeyer has never corrected with their fence.  Several of the companies that make clones of the Biesemeyer recognized the problem and have incorporated a simple adjustment for squaring the fence's face to the table.

   Your options are:

   1.  Live with it, for ordinary ripping, the slight lean of the face won't make a difference and any faces that you add to the fence for special operations can be set square to the table with shims or adjustment screws. 

   2.  Return the fence as defective and hope that the replacement is properly welded.

   3.  Add a new face on top of the existing face and shim it square.  Unless they have changed the design, removing the factory installed face can only be done by destroying it to get at the screws hidden under the laminate facing, a job that isn't worth the trouble.  It is easier to just run screws through the second face into the original face.  A second advantage to adding an additional face is that you can easily replace it if it is damaged or exchange it for certain operations. 

   Adding a face will probably make it necessary to either reposition the cursor to get it to read properly or you will have to peel off the tape on the front bar and reposition it.  You may need a new tape if it doesn't peel off easily.

   4.  The head of the fence rides on two nylon pads that slide along the top of the front bar.  If you change the thickness of one of these pads you can tilt the face to get it square to the table.  On several of the Biesemeyer clones, the pads have been replaced by 3/8" diameter nylon socket head screws that can simply be threaded in and out to get the face square.  

   On your fence you will have to remove the pad on one end and shim it thicker to get things square.  You might try using heavy duty double sided carpeting tape which would work as a shim stock and would also serve to reattach the pad.  Alternatively, you could drill and tap the head and install nylon or brass screws in place of the pads to make the fence adjustable.

   Hope this helps, John W. 

   
   

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   Edited 6/2/2006 3:19 pm ET by JohnWW

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   jim_hall | Jun 03, 2006 06:11am | #2

   Thanks, John.. Great advice.. and great looking coopered blanket chest you built also..!! I'm going to look into adding nylon socket head screws..  if I can find them..  Very helpful, thanks.. -Jim