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30th September 2010, 08:24 PM #1Golden Member
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Incra mitre guage when cutting at an angle
I usually have the edge of my mitre guage sitting a couple mm from the blade. So when I dial up an angle other than 90, I always adjust the distance from the blade (you know, because of circles and math and stuff).
Except for this one time!
The Freud blade cut right through the steel causing small shards of steel to fly all over the place. Thankfully none of them hit me in the face or eyes.___________________________________________________________
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30th September 2010, 08:35 PM #2
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30th September 2010, 08:46 PM #3
Ally, Steel. Either way...
An expensive mistake!
(I did similar with my cross-fence. Only a cheap 'n nasty job, but even so it was the only one I had. Now it's only a cross-stub. )
- Andy Mc
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30th September 2010, 08:51 PM #4Golden Member
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"The things I make may be for others, but how I make them is for me."
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30th September 2010, 11:03 PM #5
Bugger, I did that once, but when I started to hear a "shhing!" i realised what I was about to do and pulled the m/gauge out. I only went in a few mm at the bottom and didn't do to much damage.
Thought about it for a bit, and remembered not to do it again. (so long as the Stuff-up Fairies keep away)
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1st October 2010, 09:08 AM #6
Trial it
Hi all.
Apart from bog standard cross-cuts, it's good practice to do a dry run to make sure that nothing gets in the way of the blade, including your fingers.
Using a wooden sub-fence that overhangs the Flip Fence is good practice as well.
Regards
Grahame
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1st October 2010, 10:06 AM #7Golden Member
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Thanks for the tip Graham. I usually do that stuff so this was quite out of the ordinary for me. I was making a small cut for a shim and just didn't go slowly enough to realise what would happen.
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1st October 2010, 10:07 AM #8
you don't make suggestions like that. You want phone calls like, "Grahame, I buggered up my shiny Incra 1000 SE... I cut it up on the tablesaw and I need to buy a new one."
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1st October 2010, 10:11 AM #9
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1st October 2010, 10:39 PM #10
I nicked my Incra as well , not a "big a nick" as yours , but me off just the same.
Sub fence was fitted very quickly.
Kev."Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend ,inside a dog it's too dark to read"
Groucho Marx
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1st October 2010, 11:01 PM #11
I think this is a pretty common occurrence. In the early days of ownership I cut a little into mine also. Later I acquired a second 1000se as part of a purchase from another forum member and it had an almost identical cut. I have not installed a sub fence but I do now take extra care.
Hitch
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7th October 2010, 10:14 AM #12
I bought a V27.
Cheaper
does everything perfectly well provided you don't need too many odd angles
comes with no fence so you make your own out of timber
Glad you weren't hurt.I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
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8th October 2010, 06:35 PM #13
So did you recut it back to square?
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12th October 2010, 08:32 PM #14Golden Member
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