23
CUTTING WITH YOUR COMPOUND MITER
SAW
WARNING:
When using a work clamp or C-clamp to secure
your workpiece, clamp workpiece on one side of
the blade only. The workpiece must remain free
on one side of the blade to prevent the blade from
binding in workpiece. The workpiece binding the
blade will cause motor stalling and kickback. This
situation could cause an accident resulting in pos-
sible serious personal injury.
WARNING:
To avoid serious personal injury, always tighten the
miter lock handle securely before making a cut.
Failure to do so could result in movement of the
control arm or miter table while making a cut.
TO CROSSCUT
See Figure 26.
A crosscut is made by cutting across the grain of the
workpiece. A straight crosscut is made with the miter table
set at the 0
°
position. Miter crosscuts are made with the miter
table set at some angle other than zero.
Pull out the lock pin and lift saw arm to its full height.
Loosen the miter lock handle. Rotate the miter lock handle
approximately one-half turn to the left to loosen.
Press the miter lock plate down with your thumb and
hold.
Rotate the control arm until the pointer aligns with the
desired angle on the miter scale.
Release the miter lock plate.
NOTE:
You can quickly locate 0°, 15
°
, 22.5
°
, 31.6
°
, and
45° left or right by releasing the lock plate as you rotate
the control arm. The lock plate will seat itself in one of the
positive stop notches, located in the miter table frame.
Tighten the miter lock handle securely.
Place the workpiece flat on the miter table with one edge
securely against the fence. If the board is warped, place
the convex side against the fence. If the concave edge
of a board is placed against the fence, the board could
collapse on the blade at the end of the cut, jamming the
blade.
See Figures 34 - 35.
When cutting long pieces of lumber or molding, support
the opposite end of the stock with a roller stand or with
a work surface level with the saw table.
See Figure 32.
Align cutting line on the workpiece with the edge of saw
blade.
Grasp the stock firmly with one hand and secure
it against the fence. Use the optional work clamp or a
C-clamp to secure the workpiece when possible.
Before turning on the saw, perform a dry run of the cutting
operation just to make sure that no problems will occur
when the cut is made.
Grasp the saw handle firmly. Depress the switch lock
with thumb then squeeze the switch trigger. Allow several
seconds for the blade to reach maximum speed.
Slowly lower the blade into and through the workpiece.
Release the switch trigger and allow the saw blade to stop
rotating before raising the blade out of workpiece. Wait
until the electric brake stops blade from turning before
removing the workpiece from the miter table.
Fig. 26
OPERATION
STRAIGHT
CROSSCUT
WORK CLAMP
