Can anyone point me to an online resource listing the octagon rafter table values that would have appeared on older framing squares?
Thanks,
Terry
octagon rafter table
Oct 06, 2006
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Someone on this list may be able to help you:
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The square has an octagon scale. It is for creating an octagon from a solid timber. It has nothing to do with rafters. The rafter scale is different and in a different location on the square. ______________________________ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) snipped-for-privacy@7cox.net
DanG wrote::
I was not asking about the octagon or '8-square' scale, but the octagon rafter table. It appears on very old squares designed for framing octagon roofs.
Doesn't have the table, but ...
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