My miter saw drifted 2 degrees and ruined a full kitchen install

In Hartford last Tuesday I was cutting crown for a customer's upper cabinets. My DeWalt sliding miter saw was reading true on the gauge but the cuts kept coming up short by about 2 degrees. I checked the fence, the blade, even swapped in a fresh Freud blade. What I found was a loose set screw in the detent plate, it had been working itself out over months of site work. That little drift cost me 14 feet of pre-primed crown at $48 and an extra two hours on site recutting. Has anyone else had a saw drift without the gauge moving? I'm about to start locking the angles with a digital gauge every morning.

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