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RIPPING (See Figure 19)

WARNING: Topreventserious injury:

A. NEVER use the miter gauge when ripping.

B. NEVER use more than one rip fence during a single cut.

C. DO NOT let familiarity with your saw make you careless in its operation.

Remember it only takes a careless fraction of a second to cause severe personal injury.

D. ALWAYS keep both hands away from the blade and blade path.

E. ALWAYS hold the flat edge of the workpiece against the fence, not the warped edge.

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I DANGER: NEVER attempt to pull the workpiece backwards during a cutting

operation. This will cause kickback and possible serious injury to the user.

1. Securely tighten the rip fence to the table.

2, Raise the blade so it is approximately 1/8-inch

above the workpiece.

3. Place the workpiece flat on the table and against

the fence. Keep the workpiece about 1-inch away

from blade.

4. Turn on the saw and wait for the blade to reach

full speed.

5. Slowly feed the workpiece into the blade by

pushing forward with the push stick, Only push

the workpiece section that will pass between the

blade and the fence.

/iX WARNING: ALWAYS AVOID KICKBACK. Only push forwardon the section of ]

the workpiece that will pass between the blade and the fence. ALWAYS use a push stick.

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6. Continue pushing the workpiece with the push stick until it passes the blade guard and

clears the rear of the table,

BEVEL RIPPING

This cut is the same as a rip cut except the blade bevel scale is set at an angle other

than 0°.

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WARNING: Cut only with the workpiece and the fence on the right side of the

blade.

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