Use and Care Manual

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WARNING
Do not allow familiarity with tools
to make you careless. Remember
that a careless fraction of a second is sucient
to inict severe injury.
Do not use any attachments or accessories not
recommended by the manufacturer of this tool.
The use of attachments or accessories not rec-
ommended can result in serious personal injury.
Clearing a Jam/Cleaning the Dust Chute
To clear a jam:
1. Turn OFF the tool.
2. Remove the battery pack.
Dust
Chute
Bolts
3. If unable to clear the
jam by removing the
throat plate, remove
the three bolts from the
dust chute and remove
the jam or debris from
the dust compartment.
Clean dust chute com-
pletely.
4. Reinstall all compo-
nents and check all adjustments before restart-
ing work.
APPLICATIONS
Use this tool for the purposes listed below:
• Straight line cutting operations such as cross cutting,
ripping, mitering, beveling, and compound cutting
• Dado with optional accessories
• Cabinet making and woodworking
NOTE: This table saw is designed to cut wood and
wood composition products only. Do not cut metal.
Do not cut plastics.
Cutting Aids
Push Blocks
Push Sticks
Push sticks are devices that may be used for push-
ing a workpiece through the blade in any rip cut.
When making non-through cuts or ripping narrow
stock, always use a push stick, push block, and/or
featherboard so your hands do not come within 3"
of the saw blade. Use the push stick provided with
the table saw, or they can be made in various sizes
and shapes from scrap wood and used in a specic
project. The stick must be narrower than the work-
piece, with a 90˚ notch in one end and shaping for a
grip on the other end.
A push block has a handle fastened by recessed
screws from the underside. Use push blocks for
narrow cuts and all non-through cuts.
CAUTION
Be sure the screws in a push block
are recessed to avoid damaging the
saw or workpiece.
How to Make a Jig
(For rip cutting narrow workpiece)
If ripping a narrow workpiece places the hands too
close to the blade, it will be necessary to make and
use a jig.
To make a jig:
1. Attach a handle to a long, straight piece of wood
and secure from the underside using recessed
screws.
2. Cut an L-shaped stop in the side of the jig.
Jig
Handle
Stop
To use a jig:
1. Position the workpiece at on the table with the
edge ush against the jig and against the stop.
2. Holding the jig handle and using a push block and/
or push stick, make the rip cut.
Featherboard
WARNING
Place the featherboard against the
uncut portion of the workpiece to
avoid kickback that could cause serious per-
sonal injury.
A featherboard is a device used to help control the
workpiece by holding it securely against the table
or fence. Featherboards are especially useful when
ripping small workpieces and for completing non-
through cuts. The end is angled with a number of
short kerfs to give a friction hold on the workpiece
and locked in place on the table with a C-clamp. Test
to ensure it can resist kickback.
How to Make a Featherboard
2-1/2 in.
3/4 in.
1/4 in.
1/8 in.
1-1/16 in.
12 in.
70°
Select a solid piece of lumber approximately 3/4"
thick, 2-1/2" wide and 12" long. Mark the center of the
width on one end of the stock. Miter the width to 70°.
Mark the board from the widest point at four inches.
Prepare the saw for ripping. Set the rip fence to allow
approximately a 1/4" “nger” to be cut in the stock.
Feed the stock only to the mark previously made at
4". Turn the saw OFF and allow the blade to com-
pletely stop rotating before removing the stock. Reset
the rip fence and cut spaced rips into the workpiece
to allow approximately 1/4" ngers and 1/8" spaces
between the ngers.