So last night I tried to fettle my Millers Falls miter box and ran into a couple of issues. First I tried to calibrate the cutting angle at the 90° mark. I initially measured the angle of the saw compared to the back of the box, but when I tried to cut a 45° angle it wasn't quite right. Then I tried to use the grooved bar under the saw (the gib, I guess?) as a reference and that clearly wasn't correct either. I'm guessing I need to take a series of cuts and tweak the adjustment based on that? The Langdon reference page is gone so I'm not sure what the right approach is.
The other issue I discovered is that it doesn't cut exactly vertically. I'm not sure if that's due to the saw set or the box itself is out of alignment in some way. The base plates are from a different box since they were in slightly better shape but I can't imagine that's it, and the rest of the parts are original to this box. Could be my technique I suppose, but I thought the box was supposed to compensate for that. Is there a good way to narrow down the cause?