OPERATION

■Release the miter lock lever.

NOTE: You can quickly locate 0° by releasing the miter lock lever as you rotate the control arm. The miter lock lever will seat itself in one of the positive stop notches, located in miter table frame.

■Tighten the miter lock handle securely.

WARNING:

To avoid serious personal injury, always tighten the miter lock handle securely before making a cut. Failure to do so could result in movement of the control arm or miter table while making a cut.

■Loosen the bevel lock knob.

■Move the saw arm to the left to the desired bevel angle.

NOTE: You can set bevel angles from 0° to 45°. Align the indicator point to the desired angle.

■Tighten the bevel lock knob securely.

■Place the workpiece flat on the miter table with one edge securely against the fence.

NOTE: Refer to CUTTING WARPED MATERIAL and SUPPORTING LONG AND WIDE WORKPIECES later in this manual.

■Align the cutting line on the workpiece with the edge of saw blade.

■Clamp the workpiece firmly against the fence using the work clamp or a C-clamp.

WARNING:

If not held securely in place, the workpiece is pulled toward the blade in a bevel crosscut. This action can result in the workpiece kicking back. Always securely clamp the workpiece when bevel cutting. Keep your hands out of the cutting area to avoid serious personal injury.

WARNING:

To avoid serious personal injury, keep your hands outside the no hands zone; at least 3 in. (76 mm) from the blade. Never perform any cutting operation freehand (without holding workpiece against the fence). The blade could grab the workpiece if it slips or twists.

BEVEL CUT

Fig. 12

■Perform a dry run of the cutting operation (before turning on the saw) just to make sure that no problems will occur when you make the cut.

■Grasp the saw handle firmly.

■Squeeze the switch trigger.

■Allow several seconds for the blade to reach maxi- mum speed.

■Lower the blade into and through the workpiece.

■Release the switch trigger.

■Wait for the blade to stop before raising the saw arm or moving the workpiece.

COMPOUND MITER CUT

See Figure 13.

A compound miter cut is a cut made using a miter angle and a bevel angle at the same time. This type of cut is used to make picture frames, cut molding, make boxes with sloping sides, and for certain roof framing cuts.

To make this type of cut, you must rotate the control arm on the miter table to the correct angle and tilt the saw arm to the correct bevel angle. Take care when making compound miter setups due to the interaction of the two angle settings.

Adjustments of miter and bevel settings are interdependent with one another. Each time you adjust the miter setting, you change the effect of the bevel setting. Also, each time you adjust the bevel setting, you change the effect of the miter setting.

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