Miter saw detent

Why does your miter saw lock into all these random angles? And what in the world is 31.6? These are called detents. They're preset stops so that you quickly lock into commonly used angles. And your saw can have them for both miter and bevel. Zero is easy. That's a straight crosscut. 45 for when you need to make a 90. 22 and 1/2° is half of 45. And it starts to show up a lot more when you build things with more sides. Kind of like this octagon. 22 and 1/2 is really common when you need to break a corner into smaller angles, like wrapping baseboard around a rounded corner. And you'll see 15° used in trim work or when you want to build a dodecagon. My saw also has detents for 60 and 67.5, which is pretty rare on a miter saw and something we can cover in a future video. And your miter isn't the only thing with detents. Your bevel has them, too. And a lot of them probably look familiar, like zero, 15, 22 and 1/2, and 45. Then there's this weird 33.9. And that just happens to pair with this 31.6. These two combinations of angles will make more sense when we start doing crown molding. And those two weird detents put together let me cut both inside and outside corners for crown molding. These detents in your saw aren't just random. They're actually pretty useful. And if crown still confuses you, we'll be covering it in a later video. Anyways, I'll catch you guys later. Peace.