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Sawstop Fence - Reface with stock or aluminum extrusion?

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I finally cleaned and added the rail assembly to a used industrial sawstop I got. I noticed the left side of the fence has seen better days. It's been hit with a dado blade and dinged up.

Sawstop wants $45 for a pair of panels to reface the fence. I do need a few other smaller parts from them so that's one route.

I then saw some pics of a guy who bought essentially 1"x3" aluminum extrusion and used some oval threaded nuts to attach the panels to the fence. Probably be around $80 in aluminum. My concern is running a beveled piece along the fence and have it slide into the a slot on the new aluminum extrusion. A flat auxiliary fence could be used I guess.

I could also get a piece of 3/4" HDPE plastic locally and use the clean right side of the fence as a template and follow it with a bearing bit on the router table. Probably the cheapest route.
 
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It may not be an aesthetically pleasing solution, but do you anticipate using the right side of the fence much, if at all? If the two faces are identical, you could just swap them. If there's something I don't know that makes this a dumb suggestion, please disregard :p
 
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It may not be an aesthetically pleasing solution, but do you anticipate using the right side of the fence much, if at all? If the two faces are identical, you could just swap them. If there s something I don t know that makes this a dumb suggestion, please disregard :p

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My initial thought it that can't work because there are scree holes on the back aide of each panel BUT if just rotate 180 so the front of the right side is not facing the back, that should work. I'll check that out after work today.
 
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I think the HDPE would be one way to go, but I'd probably pass on the aluminum. If you happen to hit the blade (like the PO did with the OEM fence, you'd likely be out a cartridge and maybe a saw blade.
 
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Stay away from metal on the fence. I just barely touched the blade with an aluminum taper jig. and bought a new cartridge and blade. I pulled the blade out of the cartridge and found a hairline crack on one of the carbide welds took a magnifying glass to see it. Keep metal away from that blade.
 
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