kim191•27d ago

My miter saw drifted 2 degrees overnight and I didn't notice until I'd cut 12 baseboards

I was framing out a closet last Tuesday in my garage and after the third piece wouldn't line up I checked the fence with a square and found the bolt had loosened from the vibration of moving the saw between jobs, has anyone else dealt with a saw losing alignment just from being moved around in a truck?

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logan70527d ago

Three times now I've found my table saw blade out of square after bouncing it over speed bumps on the way to a job site. It's like how your phone charger cable always breaks at the bendy part no matter how careful you are with it. The cheap hardware just wasn't meant to handle that much bouncing around day after day.

kimreed27d ago

Saw that coming from the first paragraph, @logan705. Same thing happens with my trim router - you tighten the base screws just right and it's fine until you hit a pothole and suddenly every cut is a 12-degree mess. It's funny how we spend good money on the tools but the whole setup falls apart over a couple of bumps, like how my truck's glove box latch broke after a hundred speed bumps but a smooth highway never touched it.