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Checking Saw Blade Straightness

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Speed Square Mastery: Stop Using It Wrong

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What happens here

To ensure your saw blade is perfectly straight before making a cut, you can use a speed square as a quick check. Retract the blade guard on your circular saw. Place the speed square's fence against the saw's shoe (base plate) and bring the square's straight edge flush against the saw blade. This allows you to visually confirm if the blade is perpendicular to the shoe, ensuring accurate cuts. The presenter demonstrates this using a Milwaukee speed square and a Milwaukee circular saw.

Goal: Verify the straightness of a saw blade for accurate cuts

Tools and materials

  • Milwaukee Circular Saw Milwaukee — The tool whose blade is being checked
  • Milwaukee Speed Square Milwaukee — Checking the perpendicularity of the saw blade

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going to be a straight line without having a level. Now another use of a speed square which we touched on in the beginning, but this is more tool related. Now this this would be for your your miter saws or your circular saws or even your table saws. If you want to make sure that your blade's straight before you make your cut, go ahead and pull back your guard, put that up tight there and as you can see,

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