solution for crappy TS fences

If I had to do that every time I moved my fence I’d go nuts. :)

I think if you need to do this once in a while to check it’s okay, but if you need to do it before every cut or change of fence position, it’s time for a new fence, or saw.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Sounds like you need a new fence or just another table saw if this is what you have to do to your TS.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

+1 on a new fence.

-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.

Hard to think of a tool that would be a higher priority than a decent TS. The fence is always where they cheap out . . .

-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""

I’d take up needlepoint if I had to do that with every cut…of course, it’s not much different than measuring the front and back with my tape measure, which is what I did for years and years.

-- jay, www.allaboutastro.com

I had the same problem with a 1977 Craftsman TS. I cured that problem with a new Vega Pro 40 fence.

It’s not a bad idea. Even with a top quality fence, you rely on the scale in setting the fence, but how confident are you that the fence is always 100% right? A bit of dust under the sliding head of the fence can alter a setting and you don’t realize it. Anytime I make a cut that I need to be right on, I check the setting with a square. I tend to be one who subscribes to the precision marking and layout of wood parts. I inherit that from my metalworking past and is second nature to me. I can tweak my saw fence so it’s ±.005”. For me; not a problem. To others, a problem and not necessary.