recently whilst setting up my dewalt 742 flip saw i was having no end of trouble getting the blade dead square [and to stay there]

checked the metalwork square on a strait edge [draw a line flip it over ]lines up perfectly

rips a bit off wood half length flipsover rip the other half
where the rips meet a tiny mismatch in surface as in top off one half a few thow backand the bottom of the other a few thow back now not a lot but doubled at the join

ok no probs get the square out check alignment no visible light between blade and square


mmmmmmmmm  ok wipe all surfaces of the saw the blade and square  check square for accuracy on strait edge  ---perfect

check on blade perfect  

check cut wood still wrong


guess what was wrong  

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that looks realy good jase i assume it was about £50

the wood was fine blade running true

look for bizzare impossible to think off answers  

everything properly locked in position

its realy bizzar more unusual than that wolf

guide wasnt locked off at the back

Your square wasn't square?

and just how long on the belt sander were you , with your son!!!!

big_all wrote on Oct 20^th, 2006, 7:10pm:


$39.99 inc postage to UK so thats just between £20-25 but I was unlucky and got clobbered for £3.30 import duty and £4.00 for the post ofice to collect the duty.

Expect you are going to be spending the day draw filing the square back to 90 degrees

JAson

guy i know is setting up a new workshop

the sheet saw bevel angle is set by an electric motor in .1 degree increments

one thing has just come to mind, the .1 increments means you cant set 1/4 or 1/3 degree settings

TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Oct 21^st, 2006, 7:57am:


thats sort of what i want to do keep all the accurate stuff under lock and key  and only use it when high accuracy is required

hes probably spent more money on the one tool than i have on all mine

his is a "cheap" one. Aparantly. The scribing blade has to be raised manually

dont want to discourage him wolf as he is 15 isnt realy all that interested in wood work  

and whilst i realy appreciate things staying the same as i left them

it would make me extremly happy and proud if he took up the tools not nesseseraly as a trade but to be competent to use them on his own for his use even as a hobby or to help me on tasks where 2 heads are worth more than the sum total off the parts

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Having used a panel saw with a digital read-out for more than 5 years (mine's the not so cheap one with the power rise and fall on the scorer and the main blade) for those relatively rare occasions when you need to do a mitre cut 0.1 degrees happens to be a tad more accurate than the scale on the front of an ordinary tilt-arbor sawbench or chop saw. When you think about it most mitre cuts are generally either in full or 0.5 degree amounts, certainly almost any frame with 3 to 12 sides works out that way with the exception of 7 and 11 siders (really useful, those). But in any case I've never been asked to make a frame with more than 8 sides.....

Scrit

...being a Joiner a 1/64th of an INCH is even better!!!!!  

must not get too sloppy must we!!! LOL!