Special Safety Advice Relating To Grinding And Disc-Cutting; Further Special Safety Advice For Disc-Cutting - Parkside PWS 230 A1 Translation Of The Original Instructions

a) Maintain a fi rm grip on the electrical power
tool and position your body and arms to al-
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low you to resist kickback forces. Always use
the auxiliary handle, if provided, to exercise
the greatest possible control over kickback
forces or reaction torques as the device builds
up to full speed. By taking suitable precautions
the operator can control kickback and reaction
forces.
b) Do not place your hands near a rotating
attachment. If kickback occurs the attachment
could move over your hand.
c) Avoid positioning your body in the area into
which the electrical power tool would move in
the event of a kickback. A kickback moves the
electrical power tool in the opposite direction to
the direction of movement of the grinding disc
at the point of constraint.
d) Work particularly carefully in the area of
corners, sharp edges etc. to avoid the attach-
ment bouncing or snagging on the work-
piece. Corners, sharp edges or bouncing have
a tendency to snag the rotating attachment. This
causes loss of control or kickback.
e) Do not use saw-chain woodcarving discs
or toothed discs. Such attachments create
frequent kickback and loss of control of the
electrical power tool.
Special safety advice relating to
grinding and disc-cutting
a) Always use the guard designed for the
type of abrasive consumable you are using.
Always use abrasive consumables approved
for use with your electrical power tool.
Abrasive consumables not approved for use with
your electrical power tool cannot be adequately
guarded and are unsafe.
b) To ensure the highest level of operational
safety, the disc guard cover must be attached
to the electrical power tool and set in such
a way that the smallest possible area of the
abrasive consumable is exposed to the opera-
tor. The disc guard cover is there to protect the
operator from pieces breaking off and acciden-
tal contact with the abrasive consumable.
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c) Abrasive consumables must be used only for
their recommended purposes, For example:
never grind with the side face of a cutting
disc. Cutting discs are intended for removing
material using the edge of the disc. Sideways
forces on these abrasive consumables can
cause them to break.
d) Always use an undamaged mounting fl ange
of the correct size and shape for your se-
lected grinding disc. Suitable fl anges support
the grinding disc and reduce the chance of it
breaking. Flanges for cutting discs are diff erent
from the fl anges for other abrasive discs.
e) Never use worn down abrasive consumables
intended for larger electrical power tools.
Abrasive consumables intended for larger elec-
trical power tools are not designed for the faster
rotational speeds of these smaller electrical
power tools and could break.
Further special safety
advice for disc-cutting
a) Avoid snagging the cutting disc and do not use
too much contact pressure. Do not attempt to
make excessively deep cuts. Overloading the
cutting disc increases the load and the tendency
of the disc to twist or snag in the cut, making
kickback or disc breakage more likely.
b) Avoid the area in front of or behind the rotat-
ing cutting disc. If the cutting disc is moving
away from you at the point of constraint in the
workpiece, then, in the event of a kickback, the
electrical power tool and the rotating disc may
be thrown towards you.
c) If the cutting disc jams or you stop work for
a while, switch the device off and hold it until
the disc comes to a complete stop. Never at-
tempt to pull the still rotating cutting disc out
of the cut as this could cause kickback. Deter-
mine and rectify the reason for the jamming.
d) Do not switch on the device if the cutting disc
is in the workpiece. Allow the cutting disc to
reach full speed before carefully continuing
with the cut. Otherwise the disc could snag,
jump out of the workpiece or cause a kickback.
e) Support boards or workpieces whilst cutting
to reduce the risk of kickback caused by a
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