Quick way to set up tracksaw to rip boards for shaker paneling (lots of 100mm cuts)

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I've got a lot of shaker paneling to do in my house and would like to save money by ripping full size boards into slats myself. I am a reasonably competent DIY'er with fairly decent tools but don't have a workshop or table saw or even a proper saw horse. I do have a track saw (or a circular saw and generic track). This along with propping up boards on the garden table and folding work bench has been fine for mostly every DIY job I've done around the housing including building alcove cabinets when coupled with getting larger accurate cuts done at my local Selco. But Selco will only do 10 cuts on each board, and I need to rip a board into 100mm wide slats, so that's not really an option on this project. The idea of resetting the track time and time again using my pencil line leaves me a little cold, so wondering if there is a trick to repeatedly resetting a track to the same measurement over and over again? Maybe there's a tool for this that I don't have/don't know about that I should have been using all this time? Any help that doesn't involve spending a fortune would be very welcome. Thanks
 
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Get yourself a temporary workbench (a plywood sheet of decent size on trestles)

Then cut a couple of squares of sheet material same thickness as your material you are stripping up then screw or clamp your track to them, one at each end, leaving a slot for the sheet to pass through.

Then screw a couple of stops 102mm from the track.

TIP: if you drill a 4mm hole in the sides of your stops, then screw in a 5mm screw leaving about 10mm sticking out, you then have an adjustable stop, so you can wind screw in and out to get the strips exactly 100mm wide
 
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Or If you have supplier cut board in half length ways then double it on cutting machine it’s on 7 cuts for a full sheet .
 

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