JoinerySolutions
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This one to be precise:- https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/combination-square-woes-t29104.html
Well my combi square is as old as I have been playing with bits of wood for a living. I bought it as a first year apprentice, a Rabone Chesterman with a heavy cast body housing a level bubble (never used it) a scribing point ( lost before I found a need for it) and of course the dual metric and imperial scale to 12".
I have always trusted it to be true at 90° or 45° in use as long as the retaining nut was up finger tight. It has been invaluable when laying out a job or drawing up rods, in fact 'it' should be a 'she' as one tends to trust the female form more. (Mum's, the car, the yacht etc).
Well I went in to work today and second guessed myself, is this really square?
I went to the chop saw and trimmed the end off a bit of Ash skirting board, put my square up to it............
Daylight breaking through in a cheese wedge shape, well okay a sliver but a cheese wedge shaped sliver!
Next; I checked the combi against my Stanley roofing square, it is after all of the same vintage and found they matched. Things are getting worse I thought, but,but, where is my engineers square that is only a pup at ten years old?
Well that sliver returned when the combi and engineers were mated right up until I scraped off a bit of glue residue on the engineers square. :shock:
Surely all my squares are out? :-k
Time to check the trusty Elu chopsaw, though dubious as only yesterday I was cutting architraves with no problems. [-o<
Guess what?
The darn thing was out! #-o
Lesson learned:- It is easier to re-adjust a chopsaw than it is to adjust any of the above mentioned squares, and needs checking more often than I currently do, bearing in mind it gets bumped around in the back of the van a lot!
Rob, sighing with relief that the three main squares in life are all well and good.......unless they are all in cahoots! :lol:
Well my combi square is as old as I have been playing with bits of wood for a living. I bought it as a first year apprentice, a Rabone Chesterman with a heavy cast body housing a level bubble (never used it) a scribing point ( lost before I found a need for it) and of course the dual metric and imperial scale to 12".
I have always trusted it to be true at 90° or 45° in use as long as the retaining nut was up finger tight. It has been invaluable when laying out a job or drawing up rods, in fact 'it' should be a 'she' as one tends to trust the female form more. (Mum's, the car, the yacht etc).
Well I went in to work today and second guessed myself, is this really square?
I went to the chop saw and trimmed the end off a bit of Ash skirting board, put my square up to it............
Daylight breaking through in a cheese wedge shape, well okay a sliver but a cheese wedge shaped sliver!
Next; I checked the combi against my Stanley roofing square, it is after all of the same vintage and found they matched. Things are getting worse I thought, but,but, where is my engineers square that is only a pup at ten years old?
Well that sliver returned when the combi and engineers were mated right up until I scraped off a bit of glue residue on the engineers square. :shock:
Surely all my squares are out? :-k
Time to check the trusty Elu chopsaw, though dubious as only yesterday I was cutting architraves with no problems. [-o<
Guess what?
The darn thing was out! #-o
Lesson learned:- It is easier to re-adjust a chopsaw than it is to adjust any of the above mentioned squares, and needs checking more often than I currently do, bearing in mind it gets bumped around in the back of the van a lot!
Rob, sighing with relief that the three main squares in life are all well and good.......unless they are all in cahoots! :lol:
