About 2 or 3 years ago, there was a thread with a guy having problems with his rip fence not mounting properly. I can't find that thread now, but I did run into that same problem (at least I think it was the same problem.) I fixed it in about a minute because I knew what I did.
The earlier thread's theme was that there seemed to be a 1/16" or 1/8" too much space front to back between the rails and as a result his rip fence would not clamp on the back.
What I discovered when I had the same problem - I had two of the router tables on the right side, and needed to take one off and slide the rails to the left side by about 6 inches and leave only one router table on. When I tried to clamp the rip fence down, it wouldn't clamp. I looked at the back and L clamp would not go down into the slot. I adjusted the fence, put the L clamp into the slot and decided to complete the action by putting the front of the fence on the front rail last. It would not go.
I looked at the router table real close and noticed that it was not resting on the recessed area intended for the table/rail, but on the router table's front bottom lip. What made it "seem" that it was in the right spot is that I had locked the table in place with the lever. The lever locked, but it locked the table in the wrong place - and pushed the rails about 1/16" to 1/8" farther apart than they are supposed to be. Once I released the lever, the table was able to move into it correct place and then re-locked. The distance instantly came back to its normal spacing.
For some reason, the discussion some time ago came to mind - someone said the front and back rail were too far apart. Not totally sure if it is the same reason as I discovered, but I did create a situation that caused it for a moment/
The earlier thread's theme was that there seemed to be a 1/16" or 1/8" too much space front to back between the rails and as a result his rip fence would not clamp on the back.
What I discovered when I had the same problem - I had two of the router tables on the right side, and needed to take one off and slide the rails to the left side by about 6 inches and leave only one router table on. When I tried to clamp the rip fence down, it wouldn't clamp. I looked at the back and L clamp would not go down into the slot. I adjusted the fence, put the L clamp into the slot and decided to complete the action by putting the front of the fence on the front rail last. It would not go.
I looked at the router table real close and noticed that it was not resting on the recessed area intended for the table/rail, but on the router table's front bottom lip. What made it "seem" that it was in the right spot is that I had locked the table in place with the lever. The lever locked, but it locked the table in the wrong place - and pushed the rails about 1/16" to 1/8" farther apart than they are supposed to be. Once I released the lever, the table was able to move into it correct place and then re-locked. The distance instantly came back to its normal spacing.
For some reason, the discussion some time ago came to mind - someone said the front and back rail were too far apart. Not totally sure if it is the same reason as I discovered, but I did create a situation that caused it for a moment/
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