Darren Vass
11-24-2008, 5:08 PM
Hey, my tablesaw works post flood and post rust. There still is some rust on the underside of the table, but I'm too happy making sawdust. Will do something about the underside rust later.
I'm framing my basement replacement windows on walls that are not plumb, surprise, surprise. I had to rip a 10 inch wide piece of 4 foot long 3/4 inch plywood. I had ripped these pieces with the rip fence, no problem.
But I had to do a rip cut after scribing the edge of the wall against these boards. The scribe left an angled line 1/2 inch on one end to about 2 inches on the other end that needed to be cut along the 4 foot length. I clamped a 3/4 inch thick straight edge board parallel to the angle of the cut line and used it as the rip fence. The cut started OK, but after about 6 inches, the blade seemed to drift curving toward the rip fence.
I ended up doing the cut with a circular saw and an edge guide and it worked well, albeit sawdust flying all over the place.
Can anyone help me understand what was going on? It was plywood, so grain direction should not have been an issue? The saw is a Ridgid TS 3650. I'm not sure what I did wrong.:confused:
Thanks,
Darren
I'm framing my basement replacement windows on walls that are not plumb, surprise, surprise. I had to rip a 10 inch wide piece of 4 foot long 3/4 inch plywood. I had ripped these pieces with the rip fence, no problem.
But I had to do a rip cut after scribing the edge of the wall against these boards. The scribe left an angled line 1/2 inch on one end to about 2 inches on the other end that needed to be cut along the 4 foot length. I clamped a 3/4 inch thick straight edge board parallel to the angle of the cut line and used it as the rip fence. The cut started OK, but after about 6 inches, the blade seemed to drift curving toward the rip fence.
I ended up doing the cut with a circular saw and an edge guide and it worked well, albeit sawdust flying all over the place.
Can anyone help me understand what was going on? It was plywood, so grain direction should not have been an issue? The saw is a Ridgid TS 3650. I'm not sure what I did wrong.:confused:
Thanks,
Darren