TS fence trouble

[Jeff Bartley]

For 10 years I've had a Jet cabinet saw with a micro-adjust xacta fence. This fence was one of the reasons I bought the saw. It's so easy to cut joinery with this set up: one turn equals 1/16".

Today the romance came to a halt when the clamping lever for the micro-adjust stripped out. Fortunately there were enough threads left in the housing that I was able to chase the threads and use a bolt to take over clamping duty, the little clamping lever is toast.

I can't even find the fence on any replacement part sources.

Anyone else out there have any experience with this fence?

[Bob Faris]

I believe HTC made the Xacta fence for Jet. I have the HTC800 fence with the micro-adjust feature. Does your fence look like the HTC fence pictured in this link?

http://www.palatablewoodworking.com/...s/photo28.html

If so, can you find a universal lock lever which would work as a replacement? The search term is "push button clamp lever", and there appear to be lots of types and sizes available.

push button clamp lever