How do you do your initial alignment after installing the jig?
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I have used jigs that butted up against the door for repeatability, but in this case I just visually aligned the items. The overall height is 0.35" above where the crumb tray would have been. So I entered 0.35" as the material height.
Also have been known to run a position test on a replica piece of scrap MDF positioned in the slots before doing many multiples. Once it’s dialed in it doesn’t move.
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I’ve wondered about the repeatability of absolute positioning… A taped grid on the GF floor, for example, would let you place the jig precisely each time.
Used a sharpie to mark positions.
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I use a pencil…easier to erase. 
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could also use gaffer’s tape, since that’s literally one of the jobs it was designed for. 
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And if the world were truly a stage then I’d be fine with that precision. The wife has a Theater degree. Hitting marks and set design were her life. I learned to hate gaffer’s tape.
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hah, as a musician, gaffer’s tape is lifeblood for setting up on stage. so many cables to trip over if they’re not taped down… i use it for lots of GF stuff, like testing to see if parts cut through (although still gorilla for cleaning out detailed masking).
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I play acoustic on stage. Folks in the back weren’t listening anyway.
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we always went by the philosophy of “how would the ramones cover this song?”
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Oh, it just ended up being a piece of MDF glued/screwed onto two pieces of moulding. Not worth a picture. It’s working and running the job! No fallouts!
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LOL. I was thinking the same. I laughed the other day when I found a random thing of gaff sitting in my house in a place that served no musical purpose. I chucked and thought “After these decades of using it, apparently I can’t have enough.”
LOL!
Thanks for the help everyone.
@SmokeWalker I’m happy to hear you figured out the issue.
I’m going to close this thread - if you run into any other trouble, go ahead and post a new topic.