Took me 4 hours to figure out my miter saw was cutting crooked

I was trying to frame a simple picture frame for a client and every single corner had a gap. I kept adjusting the angle by tiny amounts and getting nowhere. After messing with the fence and blade alignment for way too long, I realized the saw was sitting on an unlevel floor by like 3 degrees. Has anyone else chased a tool issue for hours only to find something dumb like that?

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robin8963d ago

Yeah just throw a level on the floor where your saw sits before you start next time. A couple of those plastic shims from a door install kit will fix it in about 30 seconds.

oliver_baker493d ago

OH man, I feel this in my BONES. I once spent an entire Sunday trying to figure out why my circular saw kept binding up, and I actually blamed the blade for being dull. Turned out the whole saw was just tilted because my workbench has one leg that's shorter than the others from sitting on a cracked driveway. I felt like such a dope when I put a shim under it and everything cut straight again. At least you only lost 4 hours, I bet your face was pretty red when you figured it out too.

corap613d ago

My buddy Tom spent two hours adjusting his table saw before noticing a slug was under the leg.