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Stopped fighting my table saw sled and shimmed the miter bar with foil tape, dead square now
Last month I was building a run of maple drawers for a kitchen job over in Clifton and my crosscuts kept coming out about 1/32 out of square over 20 inches, which showed up ugly on the drawer fronts. I checked the fence, checked the blade, re-waxed everything, and still got the same drift. Turned out the miter bar had a little slop in the slot, maybe 10 thousandths, enough that the sled would rock just a hair at the start of every cut. I stuck two strips of foil tape on the bar, one on each side, and got it snug without making it bind. That alone cut the drift way down, then I added a self adhesive strip of UHMW tape to the fence face so the stock slides slick and square. Ran a test frame out of scrap poplar and my diagonal measurements came within 1/64, which for me is as good as it gets. So now I'm curious what you all do when the slot wears out on an older saw, do you tape it, swap the bar, or build a whole new sled?
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