Sliding Miter Table

[worknhard]

Peter -- I think the screw heads from the miter base cam lock assy. serve as travel stops for the miter table. When I removed my clamps I reinstalled a short screw to maintain the stopping feature. It may be that placing a small bolt across the end of the track provides a similar travel limit. I checked my setup and have 16" from the miter fence to the SS blade slot.

[peterm]

Dusty, the SMT has 4 plastic clips underneath to the guide track ( the base) and all 4 are still holding the table in that photo. You can see them in Ron's photo:
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Ron, I may have my base mounted a little further back than you, accounting for the difference.
EDIT: During some tweaking ( attempted alignment) today, I found that shortening my 14" pipes (seen in msg.#23) to 6" works better from a removal and storage standpoint and is long enough to still be secured by the jack screws.

[dusty]

Dusty, the SMT has 4 plastic clips underneath to the guide track ( the base) and all 4 are still holding the table in that photo. You can see them in Ron's photo:
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Ron, I may have my base mounted a little further back than you, accounting for the difference.

Thank you for the response. This answers my question.

I now have an SMT that I can touch and feel. With that now comes a couple questions (concerns). Durability being the the biggest factor]Observation: There is a "hard stop" when moving the table in either direction. That stop occurs right when the plastic clips (mentioned above) would disengage from the table if not for the stop. Maximum travel in either direction is 19 3/8".

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[peterm]

Regarding wear on the plastic clips, I believe I read somewhere that they can be rotated 180 degrees to present a new wearing surface to the slides.

On another tack, I was on the BT3K forum and someone presented a nice idea for an easily removable 90 degree fence mounted right at the end of the SMT. I tried to find it again to show the reference (and credit where greatly due) here without any luck. Here is my version:
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I was lucky to have some "z" shaped angle to cut to make my piece. The black handle mounts a 5/16" bolt to the center slot in the SMT. The fence is more of that aluminum extrusion that accepts the head of a 5/16" bolt that I mentioned in an earlier post about a homemade belt grinder. The two little bolts in the short vertical leg allow fine setting of the fence:
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The advantage is an increase to about 20" for the possible cut width.
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Edit: Just found the reference (His looks nicer!) : http://www.bt3central.com/articles/files/Smtextn1-1.pdf

[SDSSmith]

This appears to be a bargain in the San Diego area. I just don't have the room nor desire for another 'project' or it would be mine.

[alisfair]

Like to see the wheels turning! Thanks for sharing and doing a super job on it too.

[Kentwood]

Kent here, Is their any way you can post some pictures of the undernieth of your BT 3000, where it attaches to the Shopsmith. I'm pretty handy but if you've already figured something out, I was trying to figure out pretty much exactly what you've done, I just had ent figured out what table saw deck mite work. Thanks

[Kentwood]

Kent here, What is the the importance of mounting the BT 3000 deck atop the pipe rails on the Shopsmith, when the BT3000 comes with its own rails for the decks to slide back and forth on. I'm guessing that the Shopsmith pipe rails are longer than the Aluminum BT3000 rails, thus giving you a wider cutting capasity from saw blade to fence, would that be correct or some other reason. Thanks

[cooch366]

So after seeing this a few weeks ago, and looking at videos & other sites I decided to give this a try and completed it today. I purchased and installed the 520 rear rails for the installation which went relatively smooth. Once dialed in it worked as others have said, but I’m not sure (until I can give it a real workout) if it was / is worthwhile for me. First impression is yes it works, but am I wowed by it no. However I reserve the right to change it to a wow..

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[dusty]

Make sure that you have done a good job (really good job) of installing it and you will be wowed. I had the same on my shorty for a long time and I loved it. Ir got put in storage when the shorty went elsewhere. I'm thinking about bringing it back for use on my Crafters Station.