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Operating Instructions

do not try to cut a 1” radius curve using a 5/8” blade.

8. Make sure the blade is not in contact with the

material when you start the saw. Start the cutting

operation. Do not try to cut too quickly; the correct

cutting speed, if one could be so precise, would never

see the blade pushed back against the thrust

be aring, the saw would cut and clear the saw line at

the rate the work piece was fed into it. If you notice

that you require more and more pressure to effect

the cut, and the blade is in continual contact with

the thrust bearing, the chances are the blade is

becoming blunt. Check and change if necessary.

Do not let go of the work piece, if you have to

change your grip, make sure one hand is holding

the material at all times.

9. If you are cutting long pieces of material think

about sawing cutouts (i.e. a saw cut from the edge

of the material to the saw line) along the saw line

so that you can discard the off cuts as you progress

down the saw line.

10. Observe the old woodworkers’ adage of never

allowing your hand/ﬁngers within one handbreadth

of the blade.

11. If you have to cut very small pieces of material,

arrange or manufacture some form of ‘shoe’ to carry

the timber. If the work piece is exceptionally small,

ﬁnd something to use as a sacriﬁcial carrier and

mount the work piece on it with double sided tape,

or similar.

12. Remember to check the blade tension after a new

blade has been ‘working’ for 30-60 mins. The blade

will ‘stretch’ slightly when new.

13. Do not release the tension on the saw blade

when work is complete. The blades and the main saw

frame do not respond kindly to constant changes in

stress and tension. Only release the tension to change

the blade or if the blade is to be removed because

the machine is to be ‘mothballed’ for a lengthy time

period. The blade in tension over a long period of

non-use will cause the tyres to develop ‘ﬂat’ spot.

Open the saw cut, either by pulling apart or driving a

wedge in close to the back of the blade. Try to

wriggle the blade free of the saw. If this is not

possible; check that the saw is free in the cut, start

the saw, allow it to run up to speed and ‘cut out’ as

quickly as possible. The removal of the ‘off cut’ may

well prevent the saw jamming again if you resume

the original cut).

DISCONNECT THE SAW FROM

THE MAINS SUPPLY!

Put the table back to the level position if it has been

tilted. Set the upper blade guide assembly

approximately midway in the throat. Open the top

and bottom covering doors. Remove the table insert.

Remove the table stabilising bolt, slacken the blade

tension by turning the blade tensioning wheel

anti-clockwise, until the blade can be easily slipped

off the wheels. Remove the blade carefully, “wiggling”

it clear of the upper blade guard and through the

plastic lower blade guard and out through the slot in

the table.

WARNING! BE VERY CAUTIOUS

WHEN YOU “UNFOLD” THE BLADE;

IT TENDS TO ‘SPRING’ OPEN, BLADE

AND TEETH GOING EVERYWHERE.

NOW is an excellent time to clean out the interior of

the machine; remove the impacted ‘crud’ from the

tyres, apply a little light oil to the screw threads of

the blade and drive belt tensioners and the tracking

control. The pivots and the slides of the top wheel

mounting assembly and the captive stub axle of

the drive belt tensioner in its slot could likewise be

lightly oiled. If you are ﬁtting a new blade, it will have

been supplied to you “folded”, bound together in this

conﬁguration with tape or tie wrap.

Changing the Saw Blade

WARNING! IF THE SAW JAMS!

SWITCH OFF IMMEDIATELY.

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