Bosch Appliances 3540 manual KNow YoUR cUTTiNG ToolS

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Safety

! WARNING	“READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS” — Failure to follow the SAFETY RULES identified by BULLET (•) symbol listed
	BELOW and other safety precautions, may result in serious personal injury.

•If any part of your saw is missing, malfunctioning, has been damaged or broken … such as the motor switch, or other operating control, a safety device or the power cord … cease operating immediately until the particular part is properly repaired or replaced.

•NEVER place your face or body in line with the cutting tool.

•NEVER place your fingers and hands in the path of the sawblade or other cutting tool.

•DO NOT perform any operation “FREEHAND” — always use the fence to position and guide the work for both rip cuts and crosscuts.

•Provide adequate support to the rear and sides of the saw table for wider or long workpieces.

•If you stall or jam the tile blade in the workpiece, turn saw “OFF”, remove the workpiece from the tile blade, and check to see if the tile blade is parallel to the table slots or grooves and if the riving knife is in proper alignment with the sawblade. If ripping at the time, check to see if rip fence is parallel with the sawblade. Readjust as indicated.

•DO NOT remove small pieces of cut-off material that may become trapped inside the blade guard while the saw is running. This could endanger your hands or cause a kick back. Turn saw “OFF” and wait until blade stops.

KNow YoUR cUTTiNG ToolS

Dull, gummy or improperly sharpened or set cutting tools can cause material to stick, jam, stall the saw, or kickback at the operator. Minimize potential injury by proper cutting tool and machine maintenance. NEVER ATTEMPT TO FREE A STALLED SAWBLADE WITHOUT FIRST TURNING THE SAW OFF.

•NEVER use toothed blade on the tile saw.

•Make sure the cutting tool rotates in the same direction as the rotation arrow on the upper guard. Also make sure the cutting tool, arbor collars and arbor nut are installed pro perly. Keep the cutting tool as low as possible for the oper ation being performed. Keep all guards in place whenever possible.

•Do not use any blade or other cutting tool marked for an operating speed less than 3600 R.P.M. Never use a cutting tool larger in diameter than the diameter for which the saw was designed.

“SaVe TheSe iNSTRUcTioNS”

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