"bf" wrote in message
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wrote:
Just received my new Jet JTAS cabinet saw with the XACTA fence and I am
little distressed that the guide rail doesn't have the measuring tape
already installed. Instead someoone has put a roll of Starret stick on
measuring tape in the box and I'm somehow supposed to align that as
precisely as Jet does at the factory!

That is absurd. My tablesaw I bought about 8 years ago already had the
measuring tape on. Welcome to 21st century manufacturing.. that sucks.
Crap like this makes me hope I don't have to ever buy new tools. I'd
like to upgrade to a bigger bandsaw, but I don't know if it's worth all
the BS from getting a 21st century import kit, so I stick with my
smaller one made in 1993.


Well at least the tape itself was made in the USA.


BTW three "T"s in Starrett. Unless it is some Chinese copy-cat (God
forbid).

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Chris

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