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    Question Limit slide travel on Bosch glide saw?

    I need to cut a set of open stair stringers and was planning to do this on the SCMS but have run into a minor issue. On a conventional SCMS you can limit the slide travel with a stop collar which makes doing repeat cuts easy and accurate. On the Bosch glide saw that's not an option, and the glide lock only fixes it at the extent of travel ie full in or full out.

    Its far from being a show stopper, but I would like to figure out a way to do this for the sake of speed and repeatability and not risk over cutting the stringers.

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    great question Richy
    I am looking for the answer to that same issue.

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    I am not familia with your model my Bosch SCMS can be stopped anywhere along the slide

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    Surely you'd be better off with a guided router for cutting stair tread dados. Your rebates, if guided, would be straight sided (even tapered if you wish to go "old school" with tread wedges. You can include travel stops anywhere along your guide/s. That way at least your rebates will be flat bottomed; which is impossible with either SCMS or Radial Arm Saw cut grooves.

    There's specialist stair tread jigs available, admittedly at some expense, from the likes of Trend.

    http://www.trend-uk.com/en/UK/produc...tair_jigs.html

    Otherwise, a clamped straight edge with a couple of additional C clamps to limit travel will suffice. Just layout your stringers carefully using a couple of small clamped nuts on a carpenters' square and offset the distances from the router's soleplate edge to the cutter to allow for accurate routed grooves that will only require their ends squaring with a sharp chisel.

    I also have a Bosch Glide saw, but generally find it (or any other SCMS for that matter) a rather poor substitute for a Radial Arm Saw for grooves, trenches & dados. All circular saw types, however, aren't really suited to stopped grooves. Any stopped groove will require extensive remedial work to elongate the groove's depth for the full length required. DeWalt and probably other manufacturers too once marketed a cradle for the Elu/DeWalt family of routers to be mounted to their Radial Arm Saw's sliding head for this precise purpose, recognising the saw's limitations in this particular task.
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    Can you pack the stringer away from the saw so that the full extension is your stop point?
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratbag View Post
    Surely you'd be better off with a guided router for cutting stair tread dados.
    If this was for closed stringers you'd be right, and I'd simply cut a template and use a guide bush and router. But open stringers are used where the treads overhang the stringer and must be cut as a sawtooth pattern.

    Quote Originally Posted by NCArcher View Post
    Can you pack the stringer away from the saw so that the full extension is your stop point?
    perhaps, I had considered that. But that brings the problem of supporting a more than 4 metre long 300x45 for a straight stair flight for 2650mm f2f and keeping consistent accurate cuts. Keeping it against the fence is preferable.

    The solution might have been staring me in the face, one of the cable clips on the glide arm broke and while looking at it I thought I might be able to fit a guide bearing in its place to run in a t track or a mitre slot.

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