Additional Safety Instructions for Shapers
SAFETY
READ and understand this entire instruction manual before using this machine. Serious personal injury may occur if safety and operational information is not understood and followed. DO NOT risk your safety by not reading!
USE this and other machinery with caution and respect, and always consider safety first, as it applies to your individual working conditions. Remember, no list of safety guidelines can be complete, and every shop environment is different. Failure to follow guidelines can result in serious personal injury, damage to equipment and/or poor work results.
1.Never place your hands within 12 inches of the cutters. Never pass your hands directly over or in front of the cutter. As one hand approaches the
2.DO NOT shape stock shorter than 12 inches without special fixtures or jigs. Where practical, shape longer stock and cut to size.
3.Keep the cutters on the underside of the workpiece whenever possible. This provides a distance guard for the operator.
4.UNPLUG THE SHAPER, and always rotate the spindle by hand to test any new setup to ensure proper cutter clearance before starting the shaper.
5.When shaping contoured work and using a rub collar, NEVER start shaping at a corner. See the rub collar section further on in the manual. The danger of
6.Always run warped stock through a jointer before you run it through the shaper.
7.Keep any unused portion of the cutter below the table surface.
8.Never attempt to remove too much material in one pass. Several light passes are safer and give a cleaner finish.
9.In most applications it is advisable to use a push stick as a safety device; in others it can be quite dangerous. If the push stick comes in contact with the cutter on the end grain, it can be violently propelled from your
10.Always make sure cutter is positioned in the correct direction before starting shaper, and always feed against the rotation of the cutter.
11.Use overhead guard when the fence is not in place.
12.Never operate the shaper without the second locking nut in place over the spindle nut. See
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