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   BG | Dec 03, 2005 03:03pm | #1

   Radish54,
   A coupla three things that have helped me with my shop fox classic. First, tightening the screw on the right of the fense should cause the fense to pitch to the left...assuming the screw on the left is backed off sufficiently to allow the fense to pitch. Second, aligning the fense, I use the miter slot and a verticle straight edge to ensure the heel of the fense is aligned with the toe...ie. square to the table top. Third, run that straight edge up the miter slot against the fense and see how the rest of the fense aligns. The plastic faces on my fense can have bulges and hollows....causing problems. good luck

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   Radish54 | Dec 03, 2005 09:01pm | #2

   Thanks BG. I'm out to trudge through the snow to the garage and give it a try. You might have saved Christmas! <:-D

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   Elcoholic | Dec 07, 2005 03:50am | #3

   Your fence is pushing the wood into the blade.  If you turn the left glide in it will move the fence to the right and visa versa.  I found some very slight bulges in the UHMWPE fence faces.  Just enought to throw off perfect shoulder cuts.  Using the table as a shooting board my #7 Bailey set to a very light cut cleaned up the fence nicely.John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking

   The more things change ...

   We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

   Petronious Arbiter, 210 BC

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   Radish54 | Dec 07, 2005 12:48pm | #4

   Thanks for the suggestion regarding the planing. I have reset the fence with BG's insight (The obvious answer, tightening the set screw at the infeed side of the fence pitching the outfeed end of the fence in the contralateral direction just was beyond my ken after fiddling for an hour late at night and under duress to complete Christmas gifts for my nephews and niece).Someday soon (in the spring more than likely) I will go the full distance with feeler gauges or dial indicator to align fence to miter slot and assure trunnion alignment to miter slots.Happily the burning and gnawing of wood has ceased while working the fence right of the blade. I've yet to see how things work when working with the fence on the left. For now Christmas is saved, and the last coats of wax and shellac are going on a baseball card box (with one of the wooden latches featured several issues back in FWW - BTW, Miller mini dowels work great as the locking pin) and a jewelry box with a fabric lined tray.Thanks Gentlemen!