I had a kickback experience a few days ago (I'm OK, car door has a small dent) and I'm getting around to checking the rip fence alignment... found out it was off and so I'm learning the techniques to re-align the rip fence with some searching on this website.
My question is about the vertical alignment - see picture below. Hopefully you can see the fence is off the vertical by quite a bit - see gap between fence and machinist's square at bottom - I can fit a .025" feeler gauge through that gap. I thought that when I loosened the top 2 screws on the fence I could not only re-align the fence to be parallel to the blade but also make the fence vertical again... but when the screws are tightened, they just force the fence to be off vertical again. I suppose I can live with this situation but is this normal to be this much off vertical? Any suggestions on how to fix it? ... maybe I should get a big Channelocks pliers and bend it into submission?
(I'll get started on the realignment with the blade now and wait for answer on this.)
Thx for any help,
rlah
My question is about the vertical alignment - see picture below. Hopefully you can see the fence is off the vertical by quite a bit - see gap between fence and machinist's square at bottom - I can fit a .025" feeler gauge through that gap. I thought that when I loosened the top 2 screws on the fence I could not only re-align the fence to be parallel to the blade but also make the fence vertical again... but when the screws are tightened, they just force the fence to be off vertical again. I suppose I can live with this situation but is this normal to be this much off vertical? Any suggestions on how to fix it? ... maybe I should get a big Channelocks pliers and bend it into submission?

(I'll get started on the realignment with the blade now and wait for answer on this.)
Thx for any help,
rlah
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