?So, today was a big day for me. I finally got my "new" KF700SP set up in a usable position. I still need to rearrange some things before I can put it in the final position. I installed the main dust collection port to my RL160 via 6" Nordfab piping. I have not installed the overhead guard. That's the first question: do I have to remove the extension table that I just leveled in order to install the dust collection support "U-arm"? I don't see how to access the bolting with the table in the way.

Next, I calibrated the rip and cross cut DROs. Looks like I need to buy a longer caliper because the closest I could get the crosscut stop is about 8". I got it as close as I could with a tape.

I installed the Tenryu 50T blade to use while I'm having the Felder blade sharpened. Is there a simple way to calibrate the width of the scoring blade? I checked it against the side of the blade with a straight edge but the width wasn't correct, so I ended up just lowering it out of the way.

I cut up my first few full sheets into some cabinet parts. I encountered a couple of issues and figured I'd see what I'm doing wrong. I ripped the first sheet lengthwise to 580mm. Without a left side parallel rip guide and table support, the best plan I could come up with was to pull the rip fence all the way towards the infeed side and align the sheet to that. The first pass I could clamp the infeed side to the table so that was ok. Then I made a second pass. On that one, cutting to the right of the blade, I had very little material left on the table and I resorted to roller stands on both the infeed and outfeed sides. That felt like I was doing something wrong.

So, if you don't have the parallel rip guide, how do you cut to the left of the blade? Or do you really have to use the rip fence and roller tables and cut to the right of the blade?

Then something similar occurred when I was cross cutting the panels. I used the rip fence as a bump stop and cut my piece to the right of the blade. Then once I'd shortened it by about half I switched to the flip stop on the cross cut fence and cut my piece to the left of the blade. This works but seems very awkward. What's the best way to do this without changing the reference?

So, as a newcomer to this overall process, what's the basic work flow supposed to look like? How do you know what to use as your reference? Assuming not everyone buys the parallel rip guide, how do you align your piece to keep it parallel (the flip stop on the outfeed end provides one reference)? Do most people cut to the right of the blade in this situation?

I apologize if this has been covered previously, but it is a pretty generic question and I couldn't find the right combination of search terms to give me relevant information.

Thanks,
Brandon