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Now I see you, Ed. If you and others would like to contact Jessem, who knows. Maybe a grass roots effort might push them over the top.

Mike

I got an email from Dan Sherman at Jessem today, DSherman@Jessem.com. I plead my case for a a Shopsmith bar for the Mite-R-Excel.

Ed, I don't see your post here but I did get an email that you might also contact Dan and support the cause for a SS-Specific bar. Please do.

Thanks,
Mike

More bad news! The Jessem bar is too tall as well. I have heard from Jessem but they have not come to any conclusions yet. I will post here again when they decide if they can make a SS-specific bar.

Thanks,
Mike

No further response from Jessem at this point.

Turns out the bar is also taller than the channel by about a 16th of an inch. I think the standard bar on a Jessm Mite-R-Excel and the Shopsmith are permanently incompatible.

I sent along the additional finding to Jessem and begged them to consider ...

This past weekend I was pondering the bar size problem and noticed that not only does the Jessem bar not fit into the channel, the bar (if it were to go into the channel) would be about a sixteenth of an inch higher than the table surface. I don't think this is going to work.

I have not gotten any ...

Today I got a response from Jessem. Their tech support folks are going to give the problem some thought. I mentioned to them the step that INCRA took to come out with a SS-specific bar. They are going to get back to me. I'll pass along what they say.

Failing a positive outcome from Jessem, I'm ...

I am hoping for an answer from Jessem about a replacement bar that will fit the Shopsmith table ala Incra. If that doesn't work, I will probably try your suggestion to adapt a SS bar to the Jessem gauge.

Any ideas about how to grind down the Jessem bar? I only need a 64th of an inch for it to fit ...

I just bought a Mite-R-Excel today as my miter gauge has seen a lot of use and a new state-of-the-art miter gauge seemed like a good idea. Well, the bar on the Mite-R-Excel is about 1/64 of an inch wider than the Shopsmith's miter gauge channels and won't fit.

Before I reluctantly return the Mite-R ...