COMPANION 315.241940 Operator's Manual page 20

Your s awhastwoscale indicators, oneonthebevel s cale
andoneonthemiter scale. A fter s quaring a djustments
have been made, i t
may be necessaryto loosenthe indi-
cators screws end reset them to zero.
FENCE
BLADE
COMBINATION
SQUARE MITER
TABLE
VIEWOFBLADE NOTSQUARE WiTHMITER
TABLE, ADJUSTMENTS AREREQUIRED
Fig. 24
_1, WARNING" Do not allow familiarity with yourtool
to make you careless.Remember that a careless
fraction of a second is sufficient to inflict severe
injury.
_, WARNING: Always wear safety goggles or safety
glasseswith side shieldswhen oparat]ngtools.
Failureto do so could resultin objects being thrown
into your eyes, resulting in possibleserious injury.
A WARNING: Do not use _ny attachments or acces-
sories not recommended by the manufacturer of
this tool The use of attachments or scceseorise not
recommended can result in serfous persona| fnJ'ury.
APPLICATIONS
Thisproduct has been designedonlyfor the purposeslisted
below:
• Cross cutting wood and plastic.
• Cross cutting miters, joints, etc. for pictureframes,
moldings, door casings, and fine jotnery.
• Bevel cutting and compQundcutting.
NOTE=The blade provided is fine for mostwood cutting
operations,but for fine jofnerycuts or cutting pisstlc, use
one of the accessory blades available from your nearest
Sears store.
_, WARNING: Before stetting any cutting operation,
_brnp or bolt your compound miter saw to a
workbench. Never operate your miter saw on the
floor or in s crouched position.Failureto heed this
warning can resultin serious personalinjury.
CU'I-rlNG WITH YOUR COMPOUND MITER
SAW
_k WARNING: When using a work clamp or C-clamp
to secure yourworkpisce, clamp workpisce on one
side of the blade o_y. The workpisce must remain
_'ee on one side of the bradsto prevent the blade
from bindingin workpisoe.The workpiece binding
the blade will cause motor stallingand kickback.
This situationcould cause an accident resultingin
possibleserious personalinjury.
CROSSCU'n'ING
See Figure 25.
A crosscutis made by cuing across 1hegrain of the
workplace. A sVa",ghtcrosscutis made with the miter
table set at the 0" position.Miter crosscutsere made with
the miter table set _t some angte other than zero.
_TRAIGHT
CRD38CLIT
2O
Fig. 25