On 11/26/14, 9:12 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
On 11/25/2014 9:09 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 11/24/14, 9:18 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
On 11/24/2014 11:58 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:31:21 -0600, -MIKE- wrote:

A brand new square should be square. I know how to check and
adjust squares. I do it when I drop one... not when I buy
one. :-)

There's a tolerance on all squares. Greatest for a rafter
square, middling for a combination square, and minimal for an
engineering square.

And an engineers square is square on both outside and inside.

And a good engineer helps those with the sloppy framing square to
square their square by punching the inside of the angle or the
outside. That makes the large framer calibrate outward and
inward.

Martin

When you take them off the shelf at Woodcraft and start doing that,
they ask you to leave the store.


It should be done already. The task is done in the field or
elsewhere. Someone always drops their square on one leg and it
changes the angle slightly.

A lot of people just ignore and hope it is close enough until they
buy another.

Martin

I know that and I know how to do it.
My whole point in all this is that a woodworking store should be selling
square squares and not ones that need adjusted.


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