Making A Dado Cut - Craftsman 315.218060 Operator's Manual

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WARNING: Never feed wood with your hands when
making any nan through cut such as rabbets or
dadoes. To avoid personal iniury, always use push
blocks, push slicks, and featherboards.
When the cut is made. turn the saw off. Wait for the
blade to come to a complele stop before removing tile
workaiece.
13 Unplug the saw.
Lower the blade and remove the screw holding the
Ihroat prate in place. Remove the throat plate,
I_ Raise the saw blade.
D Push the bevel lacking lever to the right. Rotate the
height/bevel adjusting handwheel until the bevel
indicator shows a 30 ° angle. Push the bevel locking
lever securely to the [eft while holding the height/bevel
adjusting handwhee[ to lock the angle. Reinstall the
blade guard assembly.
n Retighten the nuts at the base of the spreader. Check
spreader alignment lo the blade and adjust shims if
necessary.
B Move the bevel locking lever to the right and rotate the
blade back to gOt . Push the lever to the left to lock the
angle.
D Lower the blade, insan: the throat plate, then securely
tighten the throat pJate screw
MAKING A DADO CUT
See _Tgute 46. I
As optional dado throat plate (part number 0134011_!
is requi_ed for tills procedure. Do not use blades Jalee
less than the speed of this tool, This saw is designed fa_
use with a 6 in. stack dado (up to width of 13/16 i_q.). D_
not use an adjustable dado on this saw, :i
NOTE: This saw cannot be used to make a bevel dade I
cut. Ii
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Unplug the saw.
B Remove the blade guard assembly and the saw bl_ ,
I:1 Mount the dado blade, LISing the blade and chipper@|
appropriate for the desired width of cut. [
e Reinstall the arbor nut. |
B Make sure the arbor nut is fully engaged and the 1
arbor extends at least one full thread past a securely
tightened arbor nut. |
B When mounting dado blades, make sure both the ina#r
blade washer and outer blade washer are used, |
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WARNING: Always put alI spacers in proper I
blade, Feilur_
location when changing back to saw and damageit_
to do so may result in possible injury
the tool.
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WARNING: Always use push blocks, push sticks or
featherbeards when making dado cuts to avoid th
dsk of serious injury.
DADO CUT
PUSHS]ICK
Fig. 45
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