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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| 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. | ||
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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). | |||
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| 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 | ||
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against fence. If you must cut an irregular |
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workpiece, attach a straight edge (see |
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Cutting Aides). |
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Wrong Way Feed |
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Wrong way feed is ripping by feeding the |
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workpiece into the outfeed side of the blade. |
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WARNING |
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Rotational force of blade will pull work- |
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piece through violently if workpiece is |
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fed in same direction as blade rotates |
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(wrong way feed). Hands and fingers |
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could be pulled along with workpiece |
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into spinning blade before you can let |
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go or pull back. Fingers, hand or arm |
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could be cut off. Propelled workpiece |
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could hit bystander. |
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To eliminate risk of wrong way feed: |
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Feed workpiece against blade rotation. |
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[Set pawls and riving knife; they act as par- |
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tial barrier to outfeed side. |
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