![]() This all worked out quite well, and I like the system a lot. Draw latches worked okay for this, but it is not a thing of beauty. Oh, also had to improvise means of locking the fence to the rails while also being able to remove it quickly and easily when necessary. Also, needed to connect front to rear pinions with steel rod, but that was of course easy. The gear rack and pinion were easily found through Applied Industrial Technologies (they have a website). And I only succeeded in that quest at 50%. The hardest part was finding tubing of the right wall thickness to slide easily but without binding. ![]() This involved telescoping steel square tubing, and gear racks and pinion or spur gears for both front and rear of the saw. ![]() When I finally found my 90s era Unisaw, I was actually relieved that it's fence was discombobulated, as I was determined to try to fabricate such a fence (and I had always hated the round pipe rails and the fence that supposedly "locks" to the back rail, having lived with that arrangement on my original Rockwell contractor's saw.) ![]() HTI (or is that HTL?) As soon as Dewalt came out with the rack & pinion fence, I knew I wanted that kind of fence on a real TS. ![]()
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