Making a 70.6 cut on miter saw

[Morris Dovey]

OLEDS! 48p x 48p! Shazam!

English/Arabic/French/Portuguese/Spanish/Russian/APL! Gottahavit!

8-(

[Robatoy]

Danny Vermin: I got something to stop him. Dutch: They made it for him special. It's an eighty-eight Magnum. Danny Vermin: It shoots through schools

and this:

Roman Moroni: You fargin sneaky bastage. I'm gonna take your dwork. I'm gonna nail it to the wall. I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches

but my favourite:

Newspaper Headline: Roman Moroni Deported to Sweden. Says He's Not From There.

[Robatoy]

Geebus... that's nice...but that's not Festool pricing, it's more like Audemars Piguet pricing. (Their tourbillon watches are drool-worthy. Google tourbillon and find out exactly how nuts ultra-geek becomes in the world of mechanical watch movements.)

[Puckdropper]

"HeyBub" wrote in news:a4KdnYIZ-Z7mqx3WnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

I'm running Windows 7, and apparently they've modified character map. The code is given in the lower left hand corner is hexadecimal and not decimal. There's still copy and paste, but I wish the character map people realized many people would rather use the alt-[code] format for oft entered symbols than open yet another program.

I've looked for an option to change it, there is none.

FWIW, Calculator still has a base converter built in.

Puckdropper

[J. Clarke]

The code in the lower _left_ is the Unicode value. If there is a code for the character which may be entered using the ALT key it will be on the lower _right_. All characters don't have such a code. And if you're using Word then you can use the Unicode value by entering the hex then ALT-X (be nice if MS carried this through to all their applications but . . .).

[Steve Turner]

Ah yes, the Optimus Maximus. You'd have to be one HELL of a geek to shell out $1600 for a keyboard.

[HeyBub]

It's there on my Win7 machine.

Try scrolling and watch it flash by - again not all characers have a keyboard equivalent.

[Robatoy]

[Robatoy]

They'll be sub 300 dollars soon enough.

[Tom Dacon]

"Master Carpenter In A Can", eh?

Tom

[Martin H. Eastburn]

Thanks Tom.

If into crown cutting - some expensive sticks of crowns pay in a day or less. Cutting custom boxes or angles on most anything and doing it for a business - the real stuff pays and can be used to verify a quality job later in a QA stance.

Mart>> What you need is a "Precision Universal Bevel Vernier Protractor"

[Martin H. Eastburn]

No option key - what kind of kinky key is that - not ASCII must be a home brew of Apple or someone.

Mart> >> >>>>> Nevermind the answer to that question, how did you make the degree >>>>> thingy

[Puckdropper]

"J. Clarke" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Apparently I wasn't selecting the right characters. With the Times New Roman font, the characters after the Tilde (starting with the no break space) start showing codes on the lower right.

Why not show the codes for each character, so Character Map actually reflects the functionality that's there? Probably some historical reason...

Puckdropper

[J. Clarke]

I think they're seeing the use of the ASCII codes as "legacy". They only seem to be showing codes for symbols that don't have a marked key.

There's a way to turn on using the Alt key to get the hexadecimal Unicode symbols but it doesn't work in Windows Mail. It does work though in Thunderbird: ALT-+-B0 gives ° (note-you gotta have the "+" in there), as does ALT-0176, but ALT-176 gives ?. Weird--Thunderbird works exactly like the Microsoft docs say that an application is supposed to act, but Windows Mail doesn't.

You might want to bring up notepad or Word or something and give it a try--if your machine is not recognizing the ALT+hex Unicode combinations, tells how to turn it on.

[Hoosierpopi]

Are you talking MARKINGS or STOPS? My Miter Saw has lots of litt;e degrees painted in/on the scale but the only stops are at 90, 45,

37.5(?) and 15 (I think).

Not that this information "solves" your problem, But it might open you up to another way of looking at the problem - out of the markings on my saw box, Tes? No?

You didn't mention the stock you were using and the dimensions of the noard(s) to be cut at the indicated angle.

Since you mentioned Miter Saw, folks are likely to think of dimensions usually cut on such a saw - no 4 x 8 sheets for instance - and offer suggestions based in some part upon this premise.

Having said all that, thanks for your post as it unearthed quite a nice load of information.

[Larry Jaques]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:24:57 -0800, the infamous "Tom Dacon" scrawled the following:

Did you know that DAP has pressurized spray cans of caulk now? A client I'm working with bought one and I was in tears before I stopped laughing, thinking about the cheese-in-a-can crap that's also on the market. This probably tastes a lot like those, Tom, but I doubt I'll try -either- in this lifetime.

-- "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow

[Nonny]

This is why you're probably a lot better at woodworking than me. Me. . . I just would use the cheese-in-a-can and when it hardened, would paint it.

BTW, what happens if you leave that can of pressurized DAP out on the table by a plate of crackers when having a party? In my past life, I was invited to many office parties around Christmastime- mostly at law firms. I always speculated on the fun of taking a pretty glass bowl of Kibbles and Bits to the party and placing it on the conference table. Of course, I never did, but it was fun to speculate about.

[eclipsme]

I was at a party once where this actually happened. The report was that they were actually quite flavorful. Of course, this was in the 60s, and other things were being consumed as well...

Harevy

[Larry Jaques]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:44:14 -0800, the infamous "Nonny" scrawled the following:

E GAD! ;)

This is such a fun group...

-- "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow

[Robatoy]

I think it is. Ingenuity, humour, advice, lies, wrong political slants, all good.