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Four stars because it is nice perfectly one inch. It hurt like crazy. This is a must have safety product.This should come with a saw like a miter gauge. I ,however, cross cut a 1 x 4 using the rip fence one too many times and found myself with two nice little bruises on my belly. I didn't want to spend the money on the device. Please don't hesitate to purchase this product. You must either build one or purchase this one. I pride myself on being safe in the shop and in life in general.
I knew better and had heard Norm say not to do it several times. I was lucky to only have three bruises, two on my belly and one directly to my pride. I must agree with another reviewer. Don't wait until you need it for a project because you might find yourself just being extra careful on that cut like I found myself several years ago. I now know why.
The fence does have an adjustment screw to correct this, but it is to adjust the out of square in only one direction. That was a little to much for me. To make a long story short I removed the angle and sanded it square and to the right thickness on my delta 12" with 80 grit paper. I measured the width from the angle to the fence surface. One thing I forgot to mention, after you drill the fence material make sure you counter sink the holes so when you mount the angle that it sits real flat. I then took my toolmakers square and found out that the aluminum angle was out of square.
The fence was.760 and the angle is now.240 = 1.000. I just received my cutoff fence and assembled it to the instructions. It measured 1.045. My fence was out the other way.
All the good stuff you will read about this product is true. My only gripe is that I think I just paid $20.00 for the cut off stop and the rest of this month's salary for the name.
Instead of taking you to the 78-939 Cut-Off Stop for T-Square Fences product manual, it takes you instead to the Biesemeyer T-Square Miter Saw Table Instruction Manual. The link on this product description page, to the PDF product manual is wrong. I gave the product 3 stars because I had to rate this item to get the review published and I didn't want to be unfair.I informed Amazon about this problem months ago but I see that nothing has changed. This is not a review. This is just a bit of information for a potential buyer who may be looking for additional information on the 78-939 Cut-Off Stop product. This is kind of sad since I was interested in obtaining a lot more information about the Cut-Off Stop than was given in the sparse product description.
I have been very happy with it's performance so far. I've been delaying buying this for years, but finally did it. Much easier than clamping a scrap on the fence.
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