MasterCraft 55-6896-2 Owner's Manual page 9

• Spindle Lock: Allows the user to stop the blade from rotating while
tightening or loosening the blade screw during blade replacement or removal.
• Bevel Cut: A cutting operation made with the blade at any angle other than
90° to the mitre table.
• Chamfer Cut: A cut that removes a wedge from a block of wood so that
the end (or part of the end) is angled at other than 90°.
• Compound Mitre Cut: A cut made using both a mitre angle and a bevel
angle at the same time.
• Crosscut: A cutting operation made across the grain of the workpiece.
• Slide Rails: Guide the head assembly when making a slide cut.
• Head Assembly Locking pin: The compound mitre saw is equipped with a
locking pin that is used to lock the head assembly in the down position.
• Flange: A ring or collar on the end of a spindle or arbor that permits other
objects, such as a blade, to be attached to it.
• Freehand Cut: Performing a cut without using a fence, mitre gauge,
fixture, work clamp, or other proper device to keep the workpiece from
twisting or moving during the cut. Do not perform any operation freehand.
Use a clamp or vise wherever possible.
• Gum: A sticky, sap-based residue of wood products.
• Kerf: The material removed by the blade in a through cut, or the slot
produced by the blade in a non-through or partial cut.
• Kickback: A hazard that can occur when the blade binds or stalls, throwing
the workpiece back toward the operator.
• Mitre Cut: A cutting operation made with the blade at any angle other than
90° to the fence.
• No-Hands Zone: The area between the marked lines on the left and right
side of the mitre-table base. This zone is identified by No-Hands Zone
symbols inside the lines marked on the mitre table base.
• Non-Through Cut: Any cutting operation where the blade does not extend
completely through the thickness of the workpiece.
• Resin: A sticky, sap-based substance that has hardened.
• Revolutions Per Minute (RPM): The number of turns completed by a
spinning object in one minute.
• Saw Blade Path: The area over, under, behind, or in front of the blade, as it
applies to the workpiece. The area that will be or has been cut by the blade.
• Set: The distance that the saw blade tooth is bent (or set) outward from
the face of the blade.
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