Ripping

To reduce risk of kickback:

Push workpiece through from infeed to

Set pawls and riving knife according to rip-

outfeed side until it is completely past

pawls.

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ping set-up procedure. Correctly set riving

 

 

 

 

knife is more likely to prevent workpiece

Use featherboard (see Cutting Aides).

 

from binding or pinching blade; correctly

Keep hands away from outfeed side.

 

set pawls are more likely to grab into work-

 

If blade jams, turn saw off, remove yellow

 

piece to stop or slow kickback if one hap-

 

[key, then free blade.

 

pens.

Check that riving knife is in line with blade

When cutting composition materials, or

other materials with one smooth and one

[(see Alignment: Riving Knife to Blade).

 

 

rough side, put rough side up so pawls will

Cut only straight workpieces so surface

be more likely to grab.

will lie flat on table and edge will stay tight

 

against fence. If you must cut an irregular

 

workpiece, attach a straight edge (see

 

Cutting Aides).

 

 

 

Wrong Way Feed

 

Wrong way feed is ripping by feeding the

 

workpiece into the outfeed side of the blade.

 

WARNING

 

Rotational force of blade will pull work-

 

piece through violently if workpiece is

 

fed in same direction as blade rotates

 

(wrong way feed). Hands and fingers

 

could be pulled along with workpiece

 

into spinning blade before you can let

 

go or pull back. Fingers, hand or arm

 

could be cut off. Propelled workpiece

 

could hit bystander.

 

To eliminate risk of wrong way feed:

 

Feed workpiece against blade rotation.

 

[Set pawls and riving knife; they act as par-

 

tial barrier to outfeed side.

 

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RIDGID SP6263 manual To reduce risk of kickback, Tial barrier to outfeed side