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Finally got my miter saw cuts dialed in after 2 years of fighting it
I built a deck last summer in Spokane and kept having 1/16 inch gaps on my miters no matter how careful I was. Turned out my saw blade was 0.5 degrees off square, and I had been checking the fence instead of the blade this whole time. Anyone else have a tool that was just slightly out of whack without you realizing it?
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janac5929d ago
Read somewhere that most miter saws come from the factory a hair off because they get bumped in shipping. Makes total sense now looking back. I had a little Dewalt slider that was about half a degree off on the bevel and it drove me crazy for months. Finally used a digital angle finder on the blade instead of the fence like you said and fixed it in ten minutes. Did you have to shim anything or just tweak the set screws?
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Isn't it wild how one little thing being off can mess up everything, but you don't even know where to look? It's like when my car's alignment was barely off - just a tiny pull to the right - and I was always fighting the steering wheel without realizing it was the car, not me. Same thing with my bike's derailleur once. It would skip a gear every now and then, and I spent weeks blaming the chain and the cassette. Finally a friend took one look and said my hanger was bent like half a millimeter. Makes you wonder how much of life is just us not checking the right thing first.
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abbyc3329d ago
@olivers28 Gotta disagree a little. Sometimes it IS just the obvious thing. Chased a clicking noise on my bike for months. Tightened everything. Replaced spokes. Turned out it was a loose cap on the valve stem. Felt like an idiot but it wasn't some hidden millimeter issue. Just check the simple stuff first.
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