Michael Fortune’s bandsaw videos are excellent, and he talks about eliminating drift through tracking,of the blade or through the use of the fence. I was hoping to find a way that didn’t require accessories, as I don’t have them. Gift horse and all that.
The reason I am trying to do it this way, is that I want to make a wider wooden table to go on top of the standard iron one, and the design I like involves attaching a runner to a piece of hardboard or ply, and then putting the runner in the miter slot and cutting a kerf in the new top.
I guess I can make a simple fence for the standard table, use that to align the blade and mitre slot, then a better fence for the wooden table.