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OPERATION
■
Release the miter lock lever.
NOTE:
You can quickly locate 0
°
by releasing the
miter lock lever as you rotate the control arm. The
miter lock lever will seat itself in one of the positive
stop notches, located in miter table frame.
■
Tighten the miter lock handle securely.
WARNING:
To avoid serious personal injury, always tighten the
miter lock handle securely before making a cut. Fail-
ure to do so could result in movement of the control
arm or miter table while making a cut.
■
Loosen the bevel lock knob.
■
Move the saw arm to the left to the desired bevel
angle.
NOTE:
You can set bevel angles from 0
°
to 45
°
.
Align the indicator point to the desired angle.
■
Tighten the bevel lock knob securely.
■
Place the workpiece flat on the miter table with one
edge securely against the fence.
NOTE:
Refer to CUTTING WARPED MATERIAL
and SUPPORTING LONG AND WIDE
WORKPIECES later in this manual.
■
Align the cutting line on the workpiece with the edge
of saw blade.
■
Clamp the workpiece firmly against the fence using
the work clamp or a C-clamp.
WARNING:
If not held securely in place, the workpiece is pulled
toward the blade in a bevel crosscut. This action can
result in the workpiece kicking back. Always se-
curely clamp the workpiece when bevel cutting. Keep
your hands out of the cutting area to avoid serious
personal injury.
WARNING:
To avoid serious personal injury, keep your hands
outside the no hands zone; at least 3 in. (76 mm)
from the blade. Never perform any cutting operation
freehand (without holding workpiece against the
fence). The blade could grab the workpiece if it slips
or twists.
■
Perform a dry run of the cutting operation (before
turning on the saw) just to make sure that no problems
will occur when you make the cut.
■
Grasp the saw handle firmly.
■
Squeeze the switch trigger.
■
Allow several seconds for the blade to reach maxi-
mum speed.
■
Lower the blade into and through the workpiece.
■
Release the switch trigger.
■
Wait for the blade to stop before raising the saw arm
or moving the workpiece.
COMPOUND MITER CUT
See Figure 13.
A compound miter cut is a cut made using a miter angle
and a bevel angle at the same time. This type of cut is
used to make picture frames, cut molding, make boxes
with sloping sides, and for certain roof framing cuts.
To make this type of cut, you must rotate the control arm
on the miter table to the correct angle and tilt the saw arm
to the correct bevel angle. Take care when making
compound miter setups due to the interaction of the two
angle settings.
Adjustments of miter and bevel settings are
interdependent with one another. Each time you adjust
the miter setting, you change the effect of the bevel
setting. Also, each time you adjust the bevel setting, you
change the effect of the miter setting.
Fig. 12
BEVEL CUT
