Stoutman wrote:
| "Jerome Ranch" wrote in message
| ...
|| Okay Saturday morning mental workout..I know you guys have done
|| this before.
||
|| I'm building some dog agility equipment..an aframe now, and I
|| need, at the apex, a 2x4 xcut to 50 degrees. My miter box only
|| goes to 45, and the taper jig on my table saw only does much more
|| acute angles. How do I "safely" cut the 50 angle?
||
|| The only thought I have is to do it "manually" with my portable
|| power saw and use a guide. I assume that someone has a designed a
|| jig to do this task on miter boxes and table saws.
||
|| Thanks
|| Jerry
|
|
| Make a 5 degree wedge that you can put on your miter gauge (set to
| 45) and make the cut.

Or you could make a 90-degree wedge (any rectangle of appropriate size
would work) and set your TS miter gauge to 40 degrees.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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