Well, the Wixey DRO on the rip fence has been installed 3 days ago (finally) and was used to break down 9 sheets of ¾” oak veneer plywood for a kitchen cabinet job yesterday. Two hours start to finish with the help of the Wixey. As I have mentioned on previous posts, I use the “Cabinet Planner” software and have it setup to output exact dimensions in 3 decimal places rather than rounding to the nearest sixteenth. The DRO makes setting the rip fence a dream. No more referring to the conversion chart to find the nearest fractional equivalent and allowing a smidge here and there. I just move the fence into place allowing +/- .015” and lock it down. I am definately happy with this purchase. As to the assembly, I followed my typical pattern and left the instructions folded up in the box. It required the use of 4 machine thread bolts and nuts to join the rail lengths together. 4 machine thread bolts and nuts to attach the mounting brackets to the rail assembly. Once together, I clamped it up to my rail tube and drilled 4 mounting holes for the brackets and installed the self tapping machine thread bolts (they even sent the correct sized drill bit). Lastly, I attached the clip for the magnet connection to the rip fence, spent every bit of 8 seconds to calibrate and done. It auotmatically goes to sleep when it doesn’t register any activity but when you hit the power button regardless of the fence location, it accurately displays it’s position.
A closing note on the “FREE” Wixey angle guage gift. This thing is a great tool to have. To use it, you simply sit it on the table or bed of the tool you are using and press the zero button. Then, in the case of the table saw, you attach it (magnetically) to the blade and dial in your bevel angle.
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