Mitre slide bars, how big is yours?

[Steve Maskery]

Woodford Excalibur, c2006 (i.e. previous model to the current one)

T slot
19mm wide channel, 25.2mm wide undercut. I bet it is nominally 1"
Channel depth 7mm, plus 3.2mm for the undercut, making total depth of 10.2mm

Actually it is quite difficult to measure the depth as the rail is in the way. I bet it is meant to be 1/4" plus 1/8" plus a tad clearance.

 

[NazNomad]

Kity 613 Bandsaw - 14.8mm wide, 6mm deep.

Charnwood W404 Disc/Belt Sander - 16.2mm wide, 7mm deep.

Thanks NazNomad, more variations on the theme.

Cheers Peter

I forgot to add, they are both T-slots #-o

 

[Peter Sefton]

Woodford Excalibur, c2006 (i.e. previous model to the current one)

T slot
19mm wide channel, 25.2mm wide undercut. I bet it is nominally 1"
Channel depth 7mm, plus 3.2mm for the undercut, making total depth of 10.2mm

Actually it is quite difficult to measure the depth as the rail is in the way. I bet it is meant to be 1/4" plus 1/8" plus a tad clearance.

Thanks Steve, it's good to have the measurements in both metric and imperial, it makes more sense with some of them.

Cheers Peter

 

[dickm]

Confirm that Startrite 352 is 1/2" by 3/16" - it's definitely an imperial model!
Lurem C200 (yes, it is a 200, NOT a 210B) 18mm by 5mm.

 

[Peter Sefton]

Confirm that Startrite 352 is 1/2" by 3/16" - it's definitely an imperial model!
Lurem C200 (yes, it is a 200, NOT a 210B) 18mm by 5mm.

Startrite 352 definitely a classic, is the Lurem a table saw?

Cheers Peter

 

[JakeS]

Kity 613 Bandsaw - 14.8mm wide, 6mm deep.

I have a Axminster TS-200 - supposedly a clone of the Kity 419/Scheppach Precisa 2, so I'd optimistically expect it to have the same slot as other Kity kit. I measured the T-slot as 15mm/19mm by 6mm deep - but it's worth noting I had to use a cheapo mechanical vernier (battery drained on the regular one!), so it's possible I misread it a little - it looks to me like it reads 0.1mm when closed, so I'm compensating a little on all the readings.

(It's also worth noting that the slots on the table surface are ever so slightly different sizes, they've not been machined perfectly. I planed down some plastic chopping board to make sled runners and discovered that what makes a snug, zero-play fit in one slot is tight to the point of almost jamming in the other. There's a third slot on the sliding table that I've not even tried anything with.)




For what it's worth, I've found precisely one aftermarket accessory that kind of fits my slot. The Milescraft feather boards come with both 'standard' 3/4" and also 5/8" sliders made of - at a guess - some aluminium alloy; 5/8" works out to just under 16mm, and a few strokes on some 80 grit got that sliding very nicely in my table saw slot. Unfortunately the whole featherboard is too expensive to make it worth buying just for the bars. On one hand I can get original replacements from Axi for less than that, on the other hand the Milescraft ones have a fancy expanding feature thanks to a conical expander screw.

 

[dickm]

Startrite 352 definitely a classic, is the Lurem a table saw?

Cheers Peter

Lurem is their first (?) style of universal - 10" saw, 8" planer-thicknesser and spindle (which I'm too much of a wuss to use). Home built stand with two 2kw motors. Chomps through all I can throw at it.

 

[user22161]

Record BS300E same as 350, 9 x 9 x 14mm T.

iTech/SIP 01332 table saw, badly cut 2 x 3/4" T slots.