Incra LS... Go Metric or Imperial?

[fritter63]

Those of you that have gone metric, are you running a metric table saw blade? Or still at 1/8"?

Mine is metric... 3.175 mm in width!  [tongue] [cool]

 

[bkharman]

Those of you that have gone metric, are you running a metric table saw blade? Or still at 1/8"?

That is one of the joys of the LS setup!  Doesn't matter if the cutter (blade or bit) is metric, Imperial or Gungan. You are setting the distance from it when you zero it out.

Cheers. Bryan.

 

[mavrick1903]

Those of you that have gone metric, are you running a metric table saw blade? Or still at 1/8"?

That is one of the joys of the LS setup!  Doesn't matter if the cutter (blade or bit) is metric, Imperial or Gungan. You are setting the distance from it when you zero it out.

Cheers. Bryan.

Right. Till you want to advance the LS carriage by the width of the blade, or account for the blade width as you rip down. Then the blad and the LS being in the same system makes more of a difference.

 

[schtumpig]

Did that cast iron top come from the UK - it is exactly the same casting as the UJK one bought from Axminster?
Peter

Hi Peter love the videos!

I bought it here in the USA from Tools-Plus but I am sure it is sold elsewhere under different names. This version is the made by General International and is Model: Excalibur 40-070 16"x27" Cast Iron Bench Top. In reality it is made in Taiwan by someone? Whom I am sure made a bunch and ships them all over to be branded by different companies. What I can tell you is it is nearly dead flat with a very, very small crown. Here is a fascinating article where they measured lots of router tables and compared them (Including the Bench Dog, Excalibur, Jessem, and Festool CMS) hosted on the Tool-Plus website just click the MEDIA tab to read the whole article:
http://www.tools-plus.com/excalibur-40-200c.html

And here is the schematics of the router lift in mm and Chinese

 

[VictorL]

Go metric, and don't regret. You will love it.

 

[Stone Message]

[member=27343]schtumpig[/member]

Many thanks for the diagram - yes it is the same as the UJK top from Axminster.

Peter

 

[Stoli]

I've also gone metric.  Bought the red conversion kits from Incra.

One place I am having trouble is router collars.  I have a set of metric bits, and would love to be able to get a set of metric collars to make it easy to figure out offsets.  But I have not been able to find a set in the US.  I have seen a set from Axminster, and they will ship to the states, but the cost ended up being about $60.

 

[GhostFist]

The imperial system is based off of the human body. In building furniture for people, these proportions seem more natural. long live imperial!

 

[fritter63]

Reviving and old thread here......

I think I'm about to convert to metric and get the metric LS positioner (already have the previous (LS II?) incra TS IMPERIAL that makes it easy to just swap out the positioner.

But I just realized, it doesn't have to be either/or! I think I'll just mount them both on there, off center, and then all I need to do is re-mount the fence onto whichever positioner I want to use.

Anybody tried that?

 

[mavrick1903]

If I had two positioners, (I have the Incra LS in Imperial now) I would dismount/remount. I'd split the difference between the two, and have them both available so I could clamp down the LS clamp for which ever I wanted to use. Leaving the one not in use free to slide.

If I had two.

I'm not sure that I'd want that much extra mass though when it comes time to dismount for crosscutting. Also, my router table is under the bridge for the clamp, since my table saw service door is on the left, thus I have to dismount the Positioner for table routing as well, remounting for fence routing by flipping it 180 or dismounting all together for some operations.

My thoughts. YMMV

 

[fritter63]

If I had two positioners, (I have the Incra LS in Imperial now) I would dismount/remount. I'd split the difference between the two, and have them both available so I could clamp down the LS clamp for which ever I wanted to use. Leaving the one not in use free to slide.

Oh yeah, I guess that would work too! I'd just have twice as many things to check when I go to move the fence and can't figure out why it won't move...

I'm not sure that I'd want that much extra mass though when it comes time to dismount for crosscutting. Also, my router table is under the bridge for the clamp, since my table saw service door is on the left, thus I have to dismount the Positioner for table routing as well, remounting for fence routing by flipping it 180 or dismounting all together for some operations.

Sounds like you have the same setup as me. The difference is that when I want to use my router, I simply unclamp the bridge and slide it further to the right on the rails, to where I have two fixed stops. This realigns it out of the way of the router table and allows me to use it for routing (or larger TS cuts). I do my crosscuts on the Sliding table mounted to the left of the blade.

Will post a picture of that.

 

[fritter63]

[member=105]mavrick1903[/member]

Here's my setup. In the second image you can see my fixed stops that move the bridge to an indexed location.

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[mavrick1903]

[member=10223]fritter63[/member] You've got an older LS positioner. looks like it's doing great! You've also got miles of room in comparison. I dont have as much room to hang my positioner that far right. I wish I did. Someday, next house/shop.