New Product — "Incra Miter Express"

	About five years ago, when Maureen was using the Incra Miter Gauge to cut 6 sided boxes, she found that it could also be used to set the blade tilt angle. That Incra product became the first of several miter products that brought new accuracy of cutting any angle we wanted to cut.
More recently (two years ago), Beth and I installed the Incra 5000 sled. We have used that a lot since. If there was one problem with it, it was that is was not easy to store when not in use. The miter gauge and fence seemed to make the sled difficult to hang or place in any real convenient storage rack.
	Here is the new Incra sled. The picture is from the Incra website. They call it the Miter Express and it comes without the miter gauge. You can add one of their fine gauges or use whatever you already have. The gauge slides into the large aluminum extrusion and locks in place for use with the sled. It can be  unlocked and used separately and it can be removed so that the sled can be easily stored as a square package — that I am looking forward to.
Elena is here today and can help me assemble the new Incra Miter Express.
	We have a couple of different Incra Miter Gauges to install with it. Here is the Incra website picture of their "entry" miter gauge, the V27. Here is how Incra describes it: "While the V27 delivers ALL of the accuracy of its bigger Incra Miter Gauge brothers, its no-nonsense design and compact size make it the most affordable Incra Miter Gauge EVER! "
This is the Incra 3000 miter gauge. To say that it is more expensive doesn't describe it at all adequately. Again, I will add the description in Incra's own words: "The Miter 3000 is the most-feature rich miter gauge on the planet ...."  I do like that "feature-rich" expression. We will find that to be the case as we use it with the Miter Express sled.
	To get started with out installation, I had Elena read over the instructions. Incra does a bang-up job on creating a detailed  manual. The sled is rather  easy to install and we might have been able to do it by just looking at the full color picture on the outside of the box, but there are a few little details that can only be gleaned from the step-by-step in the manual.
As you can see in the above illustration looking over Elena's shoulders, Incra shows all the parts laid out. Elena starts her install by laying them out in the exact same orientation.
	The first step is to attach the "drop off" sections together. These will catch the cut offs on the other side of the blade and help to keep them from causing kick back.
With the several pieces connected, Elena can slide it into the table saw's miter slot. She uses some dry lubricant to make the track very smooth and the jig can glide smoothly.