Miter saw fence shifted a quarter inch in the middle of a job yesterday in Austin

Honestly I didn't catch it until I was installing crown molding and the corners were off by an 1/8th. Anyone else had a DeWalt fence drift on them like that?

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colegarcia3d ago

Man, that's rough. I had a similar thing happen but with a table saw - the whole fence gradually walked out on me while I was cutting some long boards for a deck. I didn't catch it until I went to put the pieces together and there was a stupid gap. Turns out a little piece of sawdust had gotten wedged under the locking mechanism and just pushed everything out of whack over time. I bet yours is something like that, just a tiny bit of crap in the track.

the_daniel3d ago

@colegarcia are you sure its not just user error though? I mean, a tiny piece of sawdust slowly messing up your cuts over time sounds like the kind of thing youd only notice if you were being super picky. Maybe you just pushed a little harder on one end of the board or something and the gap was already there from your setup, not from the sawdust moving. Idk, seems like one of those things where you blame the tool instead of just taking a closer look at your own technique first.

anna7173d ago

Hear me out, but I actually think user error is a legit possibility here. It's WAY too easy to blame a tiny speck of sawdust when you might have just not squared up the fence perfectly that one time.