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SPECIFIC RULES FOR YOUR TABLE SAW
WARNING!
Do not operate the power tool until you have read and understood the following instructions
and the warning labels.
6. Never use a damaged or cut push stick. It may break
causing your hand to slip into the saw blade.
7. Do not perform any operation freehand. Always use
either the rip fence or the miter gauge to position and
guide the workpiece. Freehand means using your hands
to support or guide the workpiece, in lieu of a rip fence
or miter gauge. Freehand sawing leads to misalignment,
binding and kickback.
8. Never reach around or over a rotating saw blade. This
may lead to accidental contact with moving saw blade.
9. Provide auxiliary workpiece support to the rear and/
or sides of the saw table for long and/or wide work-
pieces to keep them level. A long and/or wide workpiece
has a tendency to pivot on the table’s edge, causing loss
of control, saw blade binding and kickback.
10. Feed workpiece at an even pace. Do not bend or
twist the workpiece. If jamming occurs, turn the tool off
immediately, unplug the tool then clear the jam. Jam-
ming the saw blade by the workpiece can cause kick-
back or stall the motor.
11. Do not remove pieces of cut-off material while the
saw is running. The material may become trapped be-
tween the fence or inside the saw blade guard and the
saw blade, pulling your fingers into the saw blade. Turn
the saw off and wait until the saw blade stops before
removing material.
12. Use an auxiliary fence in contact with table top when
ripping workpieces less than 2mm thick. A thin work-
piece may wedge under rip fence and create kickback.
KICKBACK CAUSES AND RELATED WARNINGS
Kickback is a sudden reaction of the workpiece due to a
pinched, jammed saw blade or misaligned line of cut in
the workpiece with respect to the saw blade or when a
part of the workpiece binds between the saw blade and
the rip fence or other fixed object. Most frequently dur-
ing kickback, the workpiece is lifted from the table by the
rear portion of the saw blade and is propelled towards
the operator. Kickback is the result of saw misuse and/
or incorrect operating procedures or conditions and can
be avoided by taking proper precautions as given.
1. Never stand directly in line with the saw blade. Al-
ways position your body on the same side of the saw
blade as the fence. Kickback may propel the workpiece
at high velocity towards anyone standing in front and in
line with the saw blade.
2. Never reach over or in back of the saw blade to pull
or to support the workpiece. Accidental contact with the
saw blade may occur or kickback may drag your fingers
into the saw blade.
3. Never hold and press the workpiece that is being cut
off against the rotating saw blade. Pressing the work-
piece being cut off against the saw blade will create a
binding condition and kickback.
4. Align the fence to be parallel with the saw blade. A
misaligned fence will pinch the workpiece against the
saw blade and create kickback.
5. Use a featherboard to guide the workpiece against the
table and fence when making non-through cuts such as
rabbeting, dadoing or resawing cuts. A featherboard
helps to control the workpiece in the event of a kickback.
6. Use extra caution when making a cut into blind ar-
eas of assembled workpieces. The protruding saw blade
may cut objects that can cause kickback.
7. Support large panels to minimize the risk of saw blade
pinching and kickback. Large panels tend to sag under
their own weight. Support(s) must be placed under all
portions of the panel overhanging the table top.
8. Use extra caution when cutting a workpiece that is
twisted, knotted, warped or does not have a straight
edge to guide it with a miter gauge or along the fence.
A warped, knotted, or twisted workpiece is unstable and
causes misalignment of the kerf with the saw blade,
binding and kickback.
9. Never cut more than one workpiece, stacked verti-
cally or horizontally. The saw blade could pick up one or
more pieces and cause kickback.
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