{"id":191,"date":"2018-03-02T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:09:40","slug":"shortening-tablesaw-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Shortening tablesaw rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought shorter 32\u201d rails for my tablesaw to replace my current 52\u201d ones for my new smaller shop space.&nbsp; The generic brand didn\u2019t fit my old fence which wanted the square tubing \u00bc\u201d wider that was on my original 52\u201d fence setup so the clamp wouldn\u2019t grab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8947-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to a metal supplier and got flat aluminum bar that was 1.5\u201d wide and \u00bc\u201d thick, drilled\/countersunk holes and tapped mating holes in the 32\u201d rail to build it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8946-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8945-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Works like a charm.<\/p>\n<p>Cost me $16 to fix the problem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_8949-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought shorter 32\u201d rails for my tablesaw to replace my current 52\u201d ones for my new smaller shop space.&nbsp; The generic brand didn\u2019t fit my old fence which wanted the square tubing \u00bc\u201d wider that was on my original &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","category-tools","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75YqE-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}