I've never heard that expression either, but I'm guessing he's saying that unaligned table saw blades to the table are few and far between.
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What's the Miter with You? Square your Miter Gauge!
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=A0 =A0 =A0-- Clarence Darrow
yes, that was a problem. It's not really glare, but the quality of the camera. When I zoomed in tight the dial face was clear, but my gauge and square was out of frame. I either needed a high def camera or a second camera that was zoomed in. On my computer I CAN see the dial when it is moving. Otherwise it was very difficult to see. I did my best with what I have.
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Maybe, but I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth.
HAHAHAHAHA! I got a million of 'em.
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Full quote: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In other words, when faced with a problem, look for common, simple explanations before unusual or exotic ones.
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Aka Occam's razor
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Nice. Adopted for future use.
Wish I had that quip in my arsenal at my last job which involved training students in troubleshooting audio/video equipment.
The was always the temptation to break into a machine or reach for test equipment... when 80 percent of the time, the darn thing just wasn't plugged in. :-)
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Better camera won't help the particular problem. If you watch your video you'll see that the dial on the TS-aligner off to the left is much clearer than the dial indicator that you are using. Also if you look closely at your hands you'll see a lot of white areas--what photographers call "blown highlights". If your camera has exposure control try adjusting it to darken the image a bit and I think it will be clearer. Alternatively, try playing with the positions of your lights to put the light where you want it and at the angle you want it. If you haven't read you might find it very worthwhile.
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Does the Incra 2000 count? It's what I'm using.
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If the blade isn't exactly parallel to the miter slot the only result would be a wider kerf.
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Sure, but I envision it being a huge PITA. And not very accurate.
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Ok. Thanks. Maybe I will re-shoot that segment.
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For a contractor's saw, loosen the back trunnion and reposition as needed. PALS brackets are handy, but not necessary. Helps to shim the trunnion (or top, in the case of a cabinet saw) level, too, as long as you have it loose, so bevel cuts are less likely to burn at the heel end.
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Clarence Darrow
I will have`to put the same shirt back on. ;^)
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And tooth marks on the work.
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Burnt wood and wandering cuts.
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What I meant with the horses/zebra analogy was that the simpler method of alignment, ie inverting the miter gauge in the miter slot and then locking the gauge against the front edge of the table saw might do a better job that the dial indicator method which is more elegant. The more parts involved in the solution allows for a greater possibility of error. (An example of Murphy's Law). The reference to Occam's Razor is proof that many of this NGs contributors are pretty smart.
Joe G
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=A0 =A0 =A0-- Clarence Darrow
I re-shot the problem scenes in the video. Please consider re-viewing if you get a chance.
Thanks!
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First rule of troubleshooting any electronic equipment: "Check the voltage."
Just before mixing the last and headline act of the night at a festival sound gig many years ago, the pianist/band leader (Rice Graduate, EE major to boot) couldn't get us a sound out of his rig so suddenly started dismantling it onstage (being the famous inventor of the particular piano pickup system he uses) while the now mostly drunk, angry festival crowd was on the verge of rebellion, being that he was also an hour late to the gig to start with.
I had initially tried to quiz him, over his monitor, if it was plugged in (I was in a tower about 150' away), but was curtly cut off in mid sentence.
Well, after that brief exchange from the little lounge lizard, he was on his on as far as I was concerned ... and, as colorblind as I am, I never saw such a red face, even from that distance, when he finally snapped to the fact that it wasn't, with 2500 folks watching his every move for the
45 minutes it took him to figure it out.Normally and notoriously, an ass to deal with, he was most humble for the rest of the, much shortened, show ... go figure.
Sometimes there's justice in the world ... :)
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Very clear. Very obvious as well. So why hadn't I thought of using a method like that before? Thanks for the tip.
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That's what his TS Aligner Jr is for. :-)
More seriously, if the blade is not aligned dead on with the mitre slot, you have a lot of other potential problems since one is setting up cuts under that assumption. If the two planes are not parallel, then even squaring up at the start of the cut is not going to be very helpful since the remaining part of the cut will move the stock out of plane with the sawblade.