After centering the rails on the saw bed, the next job was the fit the support brackets to the positioner support rail, then fit that assembly to the fence rails, then slide the LS positioner itself on the support rail, as below.
Then slide the arm into place.
Affixing the actuall fence itself to the arm, was also stright forward, two pieces of card (supplied) placed on the saw bed, four more bolts into the bracket, along with two more brackets that sit directly on the fence rails themselves to add additional support.
Now the slow job of squaring everything up.
I luckily had a very small engineers square that was a perfect fit in the mitre slot, so I moved the fence up as close as possible, and locked it into place, then using the micro adjuster, wound the fence forward until it just touched the small square.
Moving the square to the other end of the slot, revealed a gap or around 2 thou, in order line up the fence, the eight screws on the red positionser base plate (see above) need to be slackened off, and the whole assembly tilted until the fence is parralell with the mitre slot.
This was without a doubt the most cumbersome part of the whole installation, one little knudge too much, and start again. All in all, I think this part took about half an hour, give or take a few mins.
Next was to ensure that the fence was at right angles to the table saw, again on the back of the fence there are two bolts, which bolt through the slots in the silver plate at the end of the positioner arm, slacking them off, and moving the fence up and down, adjusts the final angle evry so slightly.
Once lined up, and locked down, we're done. Time for a test cut.
I took a pice of scrap MDF, about 18" long, ran it through for a clean up cut, and then adjusted the fence to slice off a piece 1x32" thick.
I think the results speak for themselves.
The proof :
Summary:
Packaging: Spot On.
Instructions: Superb, one or two places to stop and read again, but very clear, with excellent part labeling, along with good use of detail drawings.
Assembly: very precise, and fidely, but what else would you expect.
Test cuts: Perfect
So, I am glad I spent the money ??? Damn Right.
Would I do it again ?? without a second thought.
Now on to the Router Table.
Graham