I've got some skirting board to fit and thought I'd treat myself to a mitre saw to ensure I do a good job. I bought a compoumd mitre saw from Wickes for £19.95. I fitted it all together and thought I'd just do a square cut at the end of the skirting board to clean it up. After checking the result though the end was way out of square. The blade had drifted from left to right by
7-8mm over a width of 100mm. I checked the skirting was securely clamped and sqaure to the saw, made sure the blade was nice and tight and tried again but with no difference. As there is no adjustment for this I took it back and exchanged it for another one. I thought I'd picked up a new sealed pack but when I got home although the pack was still sealed for the main part the end had been opened and sellotaped up. All the components inside were out of their packing and had obviously been used. I didn't want to risk it so I took this one back as well and changed it for a new sealed pack. Pretty predictably this one doesn't cut square either running out in the same way as the first one although not quite so much. What's annoying is that I can't really see why it's happening. I've checked everything with a set square and everything looks pretty good. I'm kind of loathe to go back to Wickes for a third time so I've tried putting some packing under the blade where it's fitted to the frame to sort of twist it in the direction it needs to go counteract it's tendency to drift off line. As I say, there is no adjustment you can make if things aren't right.Just wondered if anyone else has found this problem and maybe come up with a solution.
TIA
John