Shopsmith TS-III ULTRA Operation, Set scale position, Reinstall your Shopsmith blade guard

3Set scale position

With the Ultra base still locked with the rip fence at the “zeroed” position set in step 2, lift one end of the stainless steel scale from the magnetic track and slide the scale to position 0” under the hairline cursor. See Fig. 21. Lower the scale back onto the magnetic track. If you want, you can also slide the two-piece lexan scale to agree with the stainless steel scale. Make sure the overlapping ends of the scales are aligned at 16”.

4Reinstall your Shopsmith blade guard

Before operating your new INCRA TS-

IIIUltra, replace the Shopsmith blade guard removed earlier, Fig. 22.

OPERATION

Moving the rip fence to a new scale setting

Moving the rip fence to any new position is simple. First, push the carriage clamp down to “unlock”, then slide the fence to the new position. See Fig. 23. Always align the mark on the scale directly under the hairline cursor before locking the carriage clamp in place. To secure the rip fence at the new scale location, simply pull the carriage clamp up into the “locked” position. When moving the rip fence, take care not to accidentally slide the scale in its slot.

When moving the rip fence in the area between the worktable and the Ultra base it is important to provide support for the rip fence glides. This is done by moving the floating table with the rip fence. The table tab added to the floating table earlier makes this dual

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Figure 21	With fence zeroed to blade,
	slide scale to read “0” under the
	hairline cursor

Figure 22

Figure 23 When moving fence forward, grasp table tab and fence to move floating

table with rip fence

Lower carriage clamp to unlock carriage

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To keep your rip fence glides and floating table moving smoothly, clean and apply paste wax to the rails and extension tubes from time to time.

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