Miter Saw LED Lights Upgrade

For the longest time, I've been using my single compound miter saw, DeWalt DW715. It's fairly cheap and works fairly well. Cuts 99.9% of everything I need to cut, except those really really wide boards, for which I really wished I had a sliding miter saw *sigh*. But it doesn't have a laser on it. Now-a-days the new fangled thing in town is the shadow line thing, where a light on the far saw of the saw blade would cast a shadow on the material to be cut to help determine where the cut will be, like this instructables, but that's because several of the major brands are already incorporating this into their miter saws.

 Here's the final product, note the line of shadow on the piece of wood just to the lower left of the blade?
I had a bunch of these 12 volt DC, LED strip line sitting around, like $5 for a 16 ft roll. Cut a piece, solder some wires and stick a cheap ebay 12v DC power supply on it.

Hot glue the power supply to a spot on the miter saw, and good to go

Superglue to strip to the inside of the miter saw metal guard


 Hot glue the wire down on the guard

And bingo with the lights

And I also went ahead and calibrated the miter saw using an engineering square. Having some lights shine from the backside will help with getting things lined up.



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