I Made A Mistake Building My Crosscut Sled | 5 Cut Method Explained Again For Your Table saw Sled

hey everyone my name is john and i made a mistake i know i know contrary to popular belief i'm not perfect but uh yeah i made a huge mistake so you know if you're coming here straight from the video that hopefully you know linked you over here which is my uh build video on my crosscut sled i made a pretty big mistake in that video and that doing the test cut piece i turned it in the wrong direction hard to believe i you know went obviously through the whole making of the sled making of the video editing etc etc posting it to the world to see and i turned it the wrong way it's very hard to believe so yeah not too long ago i think his name was mike i'll puzzle name up here right now uh pointed out to me yeah yeah i turned it the wrong way and when he said that my i i just couldn't believe it i was speechless but it is what it is so this video we're going through the process of fixing that issue because whenever you do turn it in the wrong direction your measurements are going to be way off and your sled is going to be out of whack which big surprise mine is kind of been wondering why you know making some cutting boards etc things were a little off on the cuts so anyway uh so yeah so here in a little bit we're gonna head over to the sled get the back of it disassembled um and then go from there on on getting it fixed so let's go so actually before we uh take this apart we need to do another test cut so we're going to do the five cut method again this time correctly so all we're going to do is uh mark the first cut number one and start making our cuts from there [Music] [Music] so now just in case some of y'all don't know the last cut which is now number five which started off as number one you just want to move it over approximately an inch or so doesn't have to be anything exact and then make that last cut then we're going to take that off cut head over back over to the workbench do some math and see just how how far off i am and now for the fun part so we're going to take the fifth cut here and we're going to measure the top and the bottom and then start doing some math and i'll be throwing up all the figures on the screen so it's nice and easy to read so let's just start here we forget my shaky hands let's see the top is going to be 0.609 so i'm going to jot that down for me here and the bottom is point seven five seven point seven five seven all right so the first step is to take that top number point 0 i'm sorry 0.608 and then you minus the bottom number from that so my case 0.757 and you come up with negative .149 so i'm going to make a little note of that and then you take that number and divide it by the numbers of an angle in a square which is obviously four so divided by four that gives you or gives me let's see here point zero three seven two and then we're going to take that number and divide it by the length of the off cut i believe mine was around 15 nope it's uh 14 and a half so again divided by 14 and a half so that gives me let's see here negative point zero zero two then we take that number and multiply it by the length of the pivot point to where you're going to be making the adjustments i already know mine to be 32 inches so times 32 and that leaves me negative point zero eight two of an inch out of alignment so now it's time to take my feeler gauge and head back over to the uh table saw sled this time get it disassembled and make some adjustments so let's head over to the sled okay so another important thing to point out is which side do you want to be your pivot and which side are you going to be moving in this case the side you want to be moving is the side that you had your test piece on so in this case this side is going to be moving uh this way which i'll give you a little bit more of that here in a second and this side is going to be your pivot side so as far as which direction you're going to be moving it inward or outward that will determine on if you ended up with a negative number or a positive number my case i ended up with a negative number i had uh .082 and negative 0.082 if that's not what i said and then so therefore i'm going to move it this way again if it was a positive number you'd be moving it this way so now we are going to flip it over take all the screws out i'm going to leave the last screw over here on the pivot side and probably just loosen it just just a little bit uh get this clamped down because now i'm going to take a piece of wood get my feeler gauges and i've got three of them to equal my negative .082 put them in there get that piece of wood with a point nice and tight up against the fence clamp it down nice and tight then i can finally remove the screw underneath there move uh you know take your peeler gauges out move the fence up until it touches here nice and tight pre-drill another uh hole below and put a screw in there then we're going to do another test cut and hopefully we're going to be a lot closer this time so i'm going to go ahead and get all that knocked out so so so okay so i'm only gonna put uh one screw in on the opposite side of the pivot side uh go ahead and flip it over do another test cut do some more math and go from there if we're close enough then i'll put the rest of the screws back in here we'll be good to go okay fingers crossed make a mark for number one i'm also going to shave off the smallest amount because i do want to keep this test square as large as possible the the larger the piece that you can do the more accurate number that you'll eventually end up is about all i have left to make do so here we go again okay back at the bench here so i've actually gone back and done two more test cuts the first one uh after what y'all saw of me making that last adjustment uh i made the last test cut did all the math i'm going to bore you with all that math again but i ended up with a negative .016 out of alignment over the distance of 14 inches yeah thought to myself well that's that's a lot better than what i did in the first video uh but i thought maybe i can do a little bit better so again i went and did a second one or i guess technically this would be a third in line and i ended up with a positive number this time of six two so that's about six thousandths of an inch out of alignment uh over the distance of fourteen inches again if you happen to use a bigger uh test piece uh you know you'll probably be a little bit more accurate again this is what i had right now and i think this time i actually am happy with the way it's cutting i can just visually look at it and tell that it is not out of alignment uh i haven't held up any squares just yet uh but i'm i'm sure it is just fine so all i have left to do is throw in uh the rest of the screws underneath to secure the back fence uh i think i'm actually gonna throw on some more paste wax get that thing sliding a little bit better other than that i think i am happy and done uh with this project so want to thank you so much for watching this one and we will catch you on the next video thanks again bye-bye you

Channel: LTD Woodworks

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Length: 11min 45sec (705 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 08 2020