The rail scale on my Powermatic 64A fence starts drifting high at ~10" and eventually increases to 1/32" around 30". Powermatic is going to send me a new scale tape under warranty. The pic shows an 6" Incra ruler placed against the scale at the 18-24" position. Aligned the ruler at the 18-19" position. Note the error at 22-23".
Anybody have any tips on how I can install this new scale accurately on the first try? Since it appears to be vinyl tape I would imagine it would be very easy to inadvertently stretch it out of tolerance during installation.
I'd also given some thought about not using the Powermatic tape and possibly mounting an accurate, very thin, metal 36" ruler (similar to the Incra ruler) on top of the rail instead . . . if such a thing exists
Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks!
Powermatic Rail 18-23 Scale Error.jpg