I'm a fan of micro adjusters. My beef is that on miter gauges or cut of fences they are always positioned on the stop rather than near the cut. It forces you to walk back and forth, siting the cut, then walking over micro adjuster that is positioned on the other end of your work piece. Incra's rip fence is pretty cool in that often it's right next to your cut assuming you are doing a thin rip. You can click their micro adjuster while looking right down on your cut line. What I would love is if that micro adjuster could always be right next to the blade. I've thrown together a drawing of how I think it might work with some 80/20 gear, and a rack and spur gear set up, and of course JW Winco knobs.
The 80/20 forms the miter fence itself. The top extrusion slides along the bottom one using some bearings, one is a Double Keyed Linear Bearing Pad, the other is the Unibearing (by just using one side of the bearing on the back of the fence). The stop block can be macro adjusted anywhere on the extrusion, then locked in place. From there you can use the micro adjuster which turns the spur gear along the gear rack which is fixed to the mobile upper extrusion. Turn the adjuster knob, the whole top extrusion slides, which means the stop block moves with it.
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The 80/20 forms the miter fence itself. The top extrusion slides along the bottom one using some bearings, one is a Double Keyed Linear Bearing Pad, the other is the Unibearing (by just using one side of the bearing on the back of the fence). The stop block can be macro adjusted anywhere on the extrusion, then locked in place. From there you can use the micro adjuster which turns the spur gear along the gear rack which is fixed to the mobile upper extrusion. Turn the adjuster knob, the whole top extrusion slides, which means the stop block moves with it.
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