steve swartz
03-17-2014, 7:46 AM
I was making some small boxes the other day and I can't figure out what happened and why.
I made some square boxes about 5"x5"x5"'. I cut the 45's on my chop saw and everything turned out good. I made some other boxes 5" wide and 5" high with a 15 degree angle on the sides, like the letter "V" with the point cut off. The finished box is a square on the top and has a smaller square on the bottom because of the 15 degree angle. The problem was that the 45's didn't fit together. I ended up shimming the stop post on the chop saw with pieces of sandpaper until I found an angle that would bring the corners together to make the boxes square on the top and bottom. It ended up being something like 42 degrees plus or minus a tad. (I would have used my Wixey angle gauge to get the real number, but a while ago I used it to check an angle on my table saw and I forget to remove it before I turned the saw on so good-bye Mr. Wixey) I have to assume that it had something to do with the compound cut, but I don't know. Can anyone explain why the 45's didn't work like they always do on square corners?
I made some square boxes about 5"x5"x5"'. I cut the 45's on my chop saw and everything turned out good. I made some other boxes 5" wide and 5" high with a 15 degree angle on the sides, like the letter "V" with the point cut off. The finished box is a square on the top and has a smaller square on the bottom because of the 15 degree angle. The problem was that the 45's didn't fit together. I ended up shimming the stop post on the chop saw with pieces of sandpaper until I found an angle that would bring the corners together to make the boxes square on the top and bottom. It ended up being something like 42 degrees plus or minus a tad. (I would have used my Wixey angle gauge to get the real number, but a while ago I used it to check an angle on my table saw and I forget to remove it before I turned the saw on so good-bye Mr. Wixey) I have to assume that it had something to do with the compound cut, but I don't know. Can anyone explain why the 45's didn't work like they always do on square corners?