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G. Ross

wrote:
On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 9:03:47 PM UTC-5, Mike Marlow wrote:

It wouldn't cost that much to just take it to a machine shop and have them

heliarc the low spots and mill the entire surface dead flat. It won't move

with the seasons, and it's good to go.

I can't imagine it being cheaper to have a machine shop involved rather than to just buy it outright, have it shipped to your house, and bolt the new one on. I found several sources online that will sell a new fence assembly for many different Ridgid 10" models for $50-$55 (like ereplacementparts.com), some charge shipping some are free.

On one ebay from a tool supply store, they were $55 for the fence with free shipping.

If I was building decks with the saw, I would get it close with some kind of home built jury rig and let it go. If I was using it for trim work, I would want it to be as perfect as possible. Think just how badly your corners would look even if the saw was off 1/32" after cobbling together a repair. Match up a small molding corners and you could easily have 1/16" open (about the width of pencil line) and worse as the molding gets wider.

Robert

No molding or fancy use for me. Can't remember when I ever took it
off 90 deg. Mainly a cut-off saw. What made me suspicious was that
recently cutting short pieces of 2 x 2 (about 4 inches long) the
cutoff would go "bang". That led to finding the reason.

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GW Ross

A scheme is not a vision - Leonard
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