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tile Saw Safety Warnings
For your Own Safety read instruction
Manual Before Operating Saw
1. Wear eye protection.
2. Use saw-blade guard and spreader
for every operation for which it can be
used, including all through sawing.
3. Keep hands out of the line of saw blade.
4. Use an appropriate push-stick when required.
5. Know how to reduce risk of kickback.
6. Do not perform any operation freehand.
7. Never reach around or over saw blade.
8. Make sure the workpiece is supported
at all times while sawing.
9. To properly understand all safety warnings,
be familiar with the following safety
terms and equipment:
10. Featherboard – A block with “fingers” that hold
the workpiece against the fence while sawing.
11. Through-sawing – A cut made from one side of
a tile to the opposite side, without stopping.
12. Push-stick – A narrow strip of wood or other soft
material with a notch cut into one end and which
is used to push short pieces of material through
saws. It provides a safe distance between the
hands and the cutting tool. Must be narrower than
the cut width to prevent contact with the blade.
a. Freehand – Feeding a workpiece through the
saw without using a fence or guided support
to guide it.
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b. Kerf – The gap made by the
saw in the workpiece.
c. Kickback – A sudden reaction to a pinched,
bound, or misaligned blade, causing
an uncontrolled workpiece to lift up and
out of the saw toward the operator.
d. Spreader – A metal plate that follows the
saw blade to keep the kerf (gap) from
closing on the saw blade. Spreaders,
except riving knives, must be aligned to the
blade after blade adjustment to prevent binding.
13. Riving Knife – A spreader mounted on
the same mechanism as the blade.
Generally more effective than simple spreaders.
14. As noted previously,
Kickback
is a sudden reaction
to a pinched, bound, or misaligned blade,
causing an uncontrolled workpiece to lift up and
out of the saw toward the operator.
Kickback is usually a result of tool
misuse and can be limited or avoided by
following the precautions below:
• Fence must be completely
parallel to the saw blade.
• Workpiece must be free from flaws
and from foreign objects.
15. Do not use a dull or damaged blade.
16. Maintain control of the workpiece. Do not
allow the workpiece to rest against the
moving blade without holding onto it.
• If the blade binds or a cut is interrupted, turn
off the power switch and hold the workpiece
still until the blade stops. Correct the cause
of blade binding before proceeding.
• Before continuing an unfinished cut,
center the blade in the pre-cut kerf and
check that the saw is not engaged into the
workpiece before turning on the saw.
• Push the tile past the blade prior to release.
17. Check guards for proper operation with saw
disconnected from power before each use.
Do not disable any guard. Do not operate
saw if any movable guard does not move
freely and close instantly. Make sure any
movable guard does not touch the blade in
all angles, depths of cut, and positions.
18. Keep the guard in place while through-sawing.
Verify that the spreader lines up with
the blade to prevent binding.
19. Construct an appropriate Push Stick out of wood
according to the guidelines on the following page.
