I have had a tall BT3000 fence for a number of years, I should have used it a few days ago but I didn't because it was too much trouble, And I paid the price as the tall item was a little unstable and I had a hard time controlling it as the two pieces separated and wallowed out a bigger kerf than I wanted at one place.
Anyway the BT3000 tall fence is generally held on by the T-slots in the side of the rip fence. This is compounded by two things... you need the BT3000/3100 specific T-bolts/nuts. And not only that but you need different sets of nuts/bolts for the left and right side of the fence.
My old fence had both sets of holes and recesses - yes to add to the difficulty you need to recess the heads of the bolts and nuts to not protrude, another complication needing the exact right sized length bolts.
And even though I had all those, you have to partially disassemble the rip fence to slide the nuts into the grooves.
Now I'd seen and heard of this before there is a way to make a fence attachment using what are called fence clamps https://www.sawdustzone.org/forum/vb...arison?t=49791
I use the ones from Rockler which are very nice and have some other uses.
So I took my old tall fence and modified it with some slots for the fence clamps to fit. I made elongated holes - two 1" holes and a jigsaw between them. Honestly, it would have been simpler to drill a 2" Forstner or hole saw and be done. But I decided I wanted elongated holes. I rounded over the edges so there's no chance of work catching as I feed it. Don't forget you need a 3/8" hole from the bottom edge of the fence to reach the opening. Good job for a drill press. as its longer than 2" needing to be centered in a 3/4" plywood.
I checked with a combination square and protractor and the fence was almost perfectly perpendicular to the table saw table.
One thing I did for the BT3000 specific was to add a couple of 1/4" dowel pins to ride in the slot in the front (left side I normally use) of the rip fence to position the fence 1/16th inch off the table so the fence does not drag and the rip fence positioning works as smoothly as normal (the pins are centered 15/16ths from the bottom of the fence.):
Some suggested measurements for the holes. Visio-Detail drawing Tall rip fence.pdf
I used a 24" x 9" piece of 3/4" plywood.
Anyway the BT3000 tall fence is generally held on by the T-slots in the side of the rip fence. This is compounded by two things... you need the BT3000/3100 specific T-bolts/nuts. And not only that but you need different sets of nuts/bolts for the left and right side of the fence.
My old fence had both sets of holes and recesses - yes to add to the difficulty you need to recess the heads of the bolts and nuts to not protrude, another complication needing the exact right sized length bolts.
And even though I had all those, you have to partially disassemble the rip fence to slide the nuts into the grooves.
Now I'd seen and heard of this before there is a way to make a fence attachment using what are called fence clamps https://www.sawdustzone.org/forum/vb...arison?t=49791
I use the ones from Rockler which are very nice and have some other uses.
So I took my old tall fence and modified it with some slots for the fence clamps to fit. I made elongated holes - two 1" holes and a jigsaw between them. Honestly, it would have been simpler to drill a 2" Forstner or hole saw and be done. But I decided I wanted elongated holes. I rounded over the edges so there's no chance of work catching as I feed it. Don't forget you need a 3/8" hole from the bottom edge of the fence to reach the opening. Good job for a drill press. as its longer than 2" needing to be centered in a 3/4" plywood.
I checked with a combination square and protractor and the fence was almost perfectly perpendicular to the table saw table.
One thing I did for the BT3000 specific was to add a couple of 1/4" dowel pins to ride in the slot in the front (left side I normally use) of the rip fence to position the fence 1/16th inch off the table so the fence does not drag and the rip fence positioning works as smoothly as normal (the pins are centered 15/16ths from the bottom of the fence.):
Some suggested measurements for the holes. Visio-Detail drawing Tall rip fence.pdf
I used a 24" x 9" piece of 3/4" plywood.
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