Out in the shop, there is a Dewalt Jobsite, 10"  tablesaw.     Fence has seemed to have gone to other places.   Still needed a fence, Hmmm...

 

A few pieces of scrap, a few screws, and a couple of "C" clamps, and the saw was back in business.   I used a piece of plywood, with a "factory" corner, and edge.    A hardwood cleat was made to ride on the rail for the old fence.   I lined up the factory edge with a miter slot, and clamped the cleat in place.  A couple screws held it it place.   Next, a piece of 1x went along the factory edge.    1x was just a 1x2.   I screwed it from the bottom of the plywood, using the edge of the plywood as a guide.   A few pictures?

cleat, and plywoodclamped in place on the sawanother view.    This fence can also be used as a "speed-square" for a circ.saw,  or as a guide for routing dados with a router.   IF one takes the time to square things up when building this "jig", better results happen.    Fence can be made taller (as needed) by changing out the 1x extension.   Be sure to brace a taller fence, with corne blocks.

LOL Don't let my freind john see that!!!  He'll take off the one he has just to build that!!!!!!

That's the exact same system my dad had on his old craftsman contractors saw years ago, the fence was worthless, so he used a wood clamp system just like that. Brings back memories, some not so good! But it cut straight.

I had a Delta Bench saw I got for $150 when I first started the fence had to be adjusted with a speed square, so I sometimes use a piece of wood because it was safer than the junk that came with it.  Kickback was the main thing that got me to replace it since the fence wasn't straight.

 

I don't know why I didn't think of the lip on the edge to square it up!

  I wound up using this thing on that Kitchen Island project.    While waiting on some stuff to loosen the tilt gears on my normal saw, I set up the old Dewalt, and ripped the 2xs into leg stock.   NO sign of kick-back, and a pass or two through the planer got rid of the saw marks.     Dewalt had a cheapo, steel tooth "thing" for a blade on it.