could kick my a$$ so hard!!!
Ripping a straight line is about to drive me nutty. I'm working on trying to build my first 'big' project... the mobile wood storage rack/cart from ShopNotes... #55 or thereabouts. Big A-frame sucker.
I tried *once* the bit w/ moving everything around and using the full width of the stock rails... not something I'm inclined to do again w/ a wide piecee of plywood 8' long.
Even just the little bits, like ripping strips for the shelf support cleats and putting a 5* bevel on one side... if I try to make sure the board stays against the rip fence on the infeed side... it ends up off the fence, sometimes as much as 1/8", on the outfeed side, and vice versa. There doesn't seem to be much of a happy medium, and the **** board comes out looking like I cut it free hand w/ a jig saw instead of a table saw w/ a rip fence.
Cutting a sheet w/ one of those two-piece extruded aluminum guide isn't much better... even after going thru w/ the CS (PC 743K), I end up having to reset the guide rail and clean it up w/ a router...
This is getting frustrating enough I'm about ready to sell all the WW tools I have accumulated and call it quits.
Any hints or suggestions as to what the heck I can do to fix this disaster, short of buying a Festool ATK55, whih is starting to look like a bargain right about now.
Thanks,
Monte
Ripping a straight line is about to drive me nutty. I'm working on trying to build my first 'big' project... the mobile wood storage rack/cart from ShopNotes... #55 or thereabouts. Big A-frame sucker.
I tried *once* the bit w/ moving everything around and using the full width of the stock rails... not something I'm inclined to do again w/ a wide piecee of plywood 8' long.
Even just the little bits, like ripping strips for the shelf support cleats and putting a 5* bevel on one side... if I try to make sure the board stays against the rip fence on the infeed side... it ends up off the fence, sometimes as much as 1/8", on the outfeed side, and vice versa. There doesn't seem to be much of a happy medium, and the **** board comes out looking like I cut it free hand w/ a jig saw instead of a table saw w/ a rip fence.
Cutting a sheet w/ one of those two-piece extruded aluminum guide isn't much better... even after going thru w/ the CS (PC 743K), I end up having to reset the guide rail and clean it up w/ a router...
This is getting frustrating enough I'm about ready to sell all the WW tools I have accumulated and call it quits.
Any hints or suggestions as to what the heck I can do to fix this disaster, short of buying a Festool ATK55, whih is starting to look like a bargain right about now.
Thanks,
Monte
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