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General Power Tool Safety Warnings
8. Unpacking And Checking Contents 15
9. Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17–21
10. Storage, Transportation,
and Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21–23
12. Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23–28
12. Basic Table Saw Operation . . . . .29–45
13. Maintaining Your Table Saw . . . . .46
5. Service
a.
Have your power tool serviced by a qualified
repair person using only identical replace-
ment parts.
This will ensure that the safety of
the power tool is maintained.
Safety Instructions for Table Saws
1. Guarding related warnings
a.
Keep guards in place. Guards must be in
working order and be properly mounted.
A
guard that is loose, damaged, or is not func-
tioning correctly must be repaired or replaced.
b.
Always use saw blade guard, riving knife and
anti-kickback device for every through-cut-
ting operation.
For through-cutting operations
where the saw blade cuts completely through
the thickness of the workpiece, the guard and
other safety devices help reduce the risk of in-
jury.
c.
Immediately reattach the guarding system
after completing an operation (such as rab-
beting, dadoing or resawing cuts) which re-
quires removal of the guard, riving knife
and/or anti-kickback device.
The guard, riving
knife, and anti-kickback device help to reduce
the risk of injury.
d.
Make sure the saw blade is not contacting the
guard, riving knife or the workpiece before
the switch is turned on.
Inadvertent contact
of these items with the saw blade could cause
a hazardous condition.
e.
Adjust the riving knife as described in this in-
struction manual.
Incorrect spacing, position-
ing and alignment can make the riving knife
ineffective in reducing the likelihood of kick-
back.
f.
For the riving knife and anti-kickback device
to work, they must be engaged in the work-
piece.
The riving knife and anti-kickback device
are ineffective when cutting workpieces that
are too short to be engaged with the riving
knife and anti-kickback device. Under these
conditions a kickback cannot be prevented by
the riving knife and antikickback device.
g.
Use the appropriate saw blade for the riving
knife.
For the riving knife to function properly,
the saw blade diameter must match the appro-
priate riving knife and the body of the saw
blade must be thinner than the thickness of the
riving knife and the cutting width of the saw
blade must be wider than the thickness of the
riving knife.
2. Cutting procedures warnings
a.
Never place your fingers or
hands in the vicinity or in
line with the saw blade.
A moment of inatten-
tion or a slip could direct your hand towards
the saw blade and result in serious personal in-
jury.
b.
Feed the workpiece into the saw blade or cut-
ter only against the direction of rotation.
Feeding the workpiece in the same direction
that the saw blade is rotating above the table
may result in the workpiece, and your hand,
being pulled into the saw blade.
c.
Never use the miter gauge to feed the work-
piece when ripping and do not use the rip
fence as a length stop when cross cutting
with the miter gauge.
Guiding the workpiece
with the rip fence and the miter gauge at the
same time increases the likelihood of saw
blade binding and kickback.
d.
When ripping, always apply the workpiece
feeding force between the fence and the saw
blade. Use a push stick when the distance be-
tween the fence and the saw blade is less
than 150 mm (6 in.), and use a push block
when this distance is less than 50 mm (2 in.).
“Work helping” devices will keep your hand at
a safe distance from the saw blade.
e.
Use only the push stick provided by the man-
ufacturer or constructed in accordance with
the instructions.
This push stick provides suf-
ficient distance of the hand from the saw
blade.
f.
Never use a damaged or cut push stick.
A
damaged push stick may break causing your
hand to slip into the saw blade.
g.
Do not perform any operation “freehand”. Al-
ways use either the rip fence or the miter
gauge to position and guide the workpiece.
“Freehand” means using your hands to support
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