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

[Flipjango]

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

 

[Notch7]

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

 

[foxhole]

Get Selco to cut a full length section so you can use it to make a full length rip guide.

 

[foxhole]

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 .

 

[big-all]

my thoughts cut full lengths less waste and half the cuts [but much less convinient ]
go the blade width under the size [1.7mm for example =98mm]
the last rip will need a strip added[98mm]to support the full track width
does the saw cover the back off the track at say 12mm off the track surface
my thoughts board pushed onto a stop then back stops to the sides to pull the track back against for accurate repetitive cuts

 

[cdbe]

Surely you'll only get 11 lengths out of a 1.2m sheet, unless you reduce the size a bit to account for the blade as stated. Regardless, if selco do 10 you've only got one or two to do. Always a pain to cut less than the track width so you'll need to do a bit of measuring and rig up something behind it.
My track (Makita) cuts 185mm from the back of the track so I'd need a second length of timber with stops 85mm back.

 

[Flipjango]

Surely you'll only get 11 lengths out of a 1.2m sheet, unless you reduce the size a bit to account for the blade as stated. Regardless, if selco do 10 you've only got one or two to do. Always a pain to cut less than the track width so you'll need to do a bit of measuring and rig up something behind it.
My track (Makita) cuts 185mm from the back of the track so I'd need a second length of timber with stops 85mm back.

They charge 50p per cut, so I can save a fiver per board if I can work out how to do it myself, but you're right, that'd be an option too.

 

[foxhole]

Surely you'll only get 11 lengths out of a 1.2m sheet, unless you reduce the size a bit to account for the blade as stated. Regardless, if selco do 10 you've only got one or two to do. Always a pain to cut less than the track width so you'll need to do a bit of measuring and rig up something behind it.
My track (Makita) cuts 185mm from the back of the track so I'd need a second length of timber with stops 85mm back.

Sheets are 1220mm wide , but easy enough to reduce strip width a few mm for low wastage.