I appreciate all the responses. After sleeping on it and doing some thinking I have it figured out. I am going to take some pictures and expand on this tomorrow. The short version is that I was connecting my layout lines incorrectly. The blue book procedure is basically this: 1. Make perpendicular w...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to wrap my head around what mistake I made while trying to do a 45 degree miter on a piece of 3" sch 40 pipe. (3.5" actual O.D.). I would usually throw a piece of pipe like this in a band saw but do not have one at my disposal, so I opened up my blue book and use...