Making A Miter Cut; Making A Bevel Cross Cut - Craftsman 315.228490 Owner's Manual

MAKING A MITER CUT
See Figure 57.
_k WARNING: Make sure the blade guard is
lowered over the blade and is working properly to
prevent possible injury.
Make a test cut on scrap wood. From the front of the
saw, push the wood to the blade with the miter gage.
The miter gage may be used in either of the grooves.
When using the left groove, hold the workpiece firmly
against the miter gage base with your left hand and
grip the miter gage knob with your right hand. When
using the right groove, hold the work piece with your
right hand and the miter gage knob with your left
hand.
• Check that the blade is at the correct height for the
workpiece. To change the blade height, turn the
height handwheel.
• If blade is not at 90" to the table, loosen bevel lock
handle and turn bevel handwheel. Reset bevel lock
handle.
• To set the wood angle, loosen miter gage knob, set
the angle with the indicator on the miter gage, then
retighten miter gage knob.
• Place a support the same height as top of saw
table behind the saw for cut work.
• Make sure wood is not touching the blade
before turning on the saw. Insert switch key and lift
switch to ON position. Let the blade obtain full
speed before moving the miter gage to feed the
workpiece into the blade.
BLADE
STRAIGHT
MITERCUT
MITERGAGE
ANGLED
• Hold work firmly against the miter gage and push to
feed work into the blade.
• When work is completed, press switch off and
remove switch key.
MAKING A BEVEL CROSS CUT
See Figure 58,
_l, WARNING: Make sure the blade guard is
lowered and is working properly to prevent
possible injury.
Make a test cut on scrap wood. From the front of the
saw, push the wood to the blade with the miter gage.
When using the miter gage in the left groove, hold the
workpiece firmly against the miter gage base with
your left hand and grip the miter gage knob with your
right hand. When using the right groove, hold the work
piece with your right hand.
BLADE
BEVELCROSSCUT
MITERGAGE
STRAIGHT
BEVELLOCK
HANDLE
(NOT SHOWN) Fig. 58
HANDWHEEL
• Raise rip fence handle and remove rip fence.
• Set blade angle by loosening bevel lock handle
and turning bevel handwheel until scale on the
cabinet front reads zero. Retighten bevel lock
handle.
HEIGHT
HANDWHEEL Fig. 57
39 (RRFT$14RN" TABLE SAW315.228490