I have a Dewalt DW716 saw and I have a question regarding the saw blade alignment/sqaure. I noticed the saw was cutting slightly off square so I followed the instructions at http://www.thisiscarpentry.com/2010/07/23/miter-saw-tune-up/ to square up the saw (using a Wixey digital protractor as well as various squares). What I found was I can square the left side of the blade to the fence and the table but the right side of the blase only squares to the fence, not the table. On the left side, the blade is 90 degrees to the table and on the right side of the blade the blade is 89.6 degrees to the table. While this doesnt seem like much is showing up in some of my work. I’ve contacted Dewalt and await their reply but i’m trying to understand what it could be. I’m using the stock blade that came with the saw.
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Remove the bishops head first -- it tends to throw things off.
Quick guess..
My first thought is that the table is not square to the fence across it's entire length.
Either the referenced edge of the table is not perfectly straight, or "90 degrees" is really only 89.8.