I put a commercial 50" on my Delta 12/14" 18 months ago.
It required drilling out a few holes and bolting it up.
(1) Buy the "best" metal bit you can find(no Walmart specials)
(2) Use a 1/2" drill with some guts.
(3) Have a friend over to work with clamping rail(s) in place.
(front rail is fairly heavy)
(4) Drill holes slightly oversize and "expand" opening to allow
for up/down adjustment.
(5) Take your time.
(6) Focus on keeping that drill and bit "dead level".
philly45 wrote:
> Has anyone had to make modifications to their table saw to mount a
> Biesemeyer fence system (Commercial or Home Shop)? What's involved with the
> process? How difficult was it and did fence accuracy suffer any?
>
>
I had to drill some 1/4" holes in the cast iron top of my DW746. It was
pretty easy if you follow the directions. They include a little jig for
setting the height of the mounting angle iron. All you do is clamp the
front rail to the top with a couple of pipe clamps and get it lined up with
the little jig, then drill the holes using the holes in the rail as a guide.
Works pretty well. You could go back and drill them out a 32nd bigger if
you really want the adjusability, but I found I didn't really need it. The
back rail is not critical since the fence doesn't ride on it. Mine is a
commercial with the long rails, BTW. An excellent upgrade, by the way.
Good Luck
Charlie
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> Has anyone had to make modifications to their table saw to mount a
> Biesemeyer fence system (Commercial or Home Shop)? What's involved with
the
> process? How difficult was it and did fence accuracy suffer any?
>
>
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:21:56 GMT, "philly45"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Has anyone had to make modifications to their table saw to mount a
>Biesemeyer fence system (Commercial or Home Shop)? What's involved with the
>process? How difficult was it and did fence accuracy suffer any?
>
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On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being difficult I rate the job as a 0.5
after 15 years of use the bies (home shop in my case) the accuracy is
still dead on.....
All you have to do is drill a few holes in the cast iron tables of the
saw... IF I remember correctly (and it has been a long time) I just
used the rails as a template for the location of the holes.....
Simple job really...
Bob G
Bob G responds:
>>Has anyone had to make modifications to their table saw to mount a
>>Biesemeyer fence system (Commercial or Home Shop)? What's involved with the
>>process? How difficult was it and did fence accuracy suffer any?
>>
>=================
>
>On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being difficult I rate the job as a 0.5
>after 15 years of use the bies (home shop in my case) the accuracy is
>still dead on.....
>
>All you have to do is drill a few holes in the cast iron tables of the
>saw... IF I remember correctly (and it has been a long time) I just
>used the rails as a template for the location of the holes.....
>
>Simple job really...
Even without the template that comes with the Biese, it's an easy job to align
and drill the holes. A couple of measurements does it.
Charlie Self
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing happened." Sir Winston Churchill