Chicago Electric Double Cut Saw 68316 - Manual (Page 4)

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Service
Have your power tool serviced by a qualified repair
person using only identical replacement parts. This
will ensure that the safety of the power tool is maintained.
Circular Saw Safety Warnings
1. DANGER: Keep hands away from cutting
area and the blades. Keep your second hand on
auxiliary handle, or motor housing. If both hands
are holding the saw, they cannot be cut by the blades.
2. Do not reach underneath the workpiece.
The guard cannot protect you from the
blades below the workpiece.
3. Adjust the cutting depth to the thickness of the
workpiece. Less than a full tooth of the blades’
teeth should be visible below the workpiece.
4. Never hold piece being cut in your hands
or across your leg. Secure the workpiece
to a stable platform. It is important to
support the work properly to minimize body
exposure, blade binding, or loss of control.
5. Hold power tool by insulated gripping
surfaces when performing an operation
where the cutting tool may contact hidden
wiring or its own cord. Contact with a ″live″
wire will also make exposed metal parts of the
power tool ″live″ and shock the operator.
6. When ripping always use a rip fence or straight
edge guide. This improves the accuracy of cut
and reduces the chance of blade binding.
7. Always use blades with correct size and
shape (diamond versus round) of arbor holes.
Blades that do not match the mounting hardware of
the saw will run eccentrically, causing loss of control.
8. Never use damaged or incorrect blade
washers or bolt. The blade washers and
bolt were specially designed for your saw, for
optimum performance and safety of operation.
9. Causes and Operator Prevention of Kickback:
• Kickback is a sudden reaction to a pinched,
bound or misaligned saw blades, causing
an uncontrolled saw to lift up and out of
the workpiece toward the operator;
• When the blades are pinched or bound
tightly by the kerf closing down, the blades
stall and the motor reaction drives the
unit rapidly back toward the operator;
• If the blades become twisted or misaligned
in the cut, the teeth at the back edge of the
blades can dig into the top surface of the
wood causing the blades to climb out of the
kerf and jump back toward 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 below:
a.
Maintain a firm grip with both hands on the
saw and position your arms to resist kickback
forces. Position your body to either side of
the blades, but not in line with the blades.
Kickback could cause the saw to jump backwards,
but kickback forces can be controlled by the
operator, if proper precautions are taken.
b. When blades are binding, or when interrupting
a cut for any reason, release the trigger
and hold the saw motionless in the material
until the blades come to a complete stop.
Never attempt to remove the saw from the
work or pull the saw backward while the
blades are in motion or kickback may occur.
Investigate and take corrective actions to
eliminate the cause of blade binding.
c. When restarting a saw in the workpiece,
center the saw blades in the kerf and
check that saw teeth are not engaged
into the material. If saw blades are binding,
they may walk up or kickback from the
workpiece as the saw is restarted.
d. Support large panels to minimize the risk of
blade pinching and kickback. Large panels tend
to sag under their own weight. Supports must
be placed under the panel on both sides, near
the line of cut and near the edge of the panel.
e. Do not use dull or damaged blades.
Unsharpened or improperly set blades
produce narrow kerf causing excessive
friction, blade binding and kickback.
f. Blade depth and bevel adjusting locking levers
must be tight and secure before making cut.
If blade adjustment shifts while cutting,
it may cause binding and kickback.
g. Use extra caution when making a
″plunge cut″ into existing walls or other
blind areas. The protruding blades may
cut objects that can cause kickback.
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