Support Long Workpieces; Using The Hold-Down/Push-Blocks - Craftsman 113.232240 Owner's Manual

Support Long Workpieces
To avoid injury from slips or kickbacks, use extra sup-
ports (tables, saw horses, etc.) at both infeed and out-
feed ends if your workpiece if hard to hold down to the
table.
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Using the Hold-Down/Push-Blocks
Always use the hold_down/push-blocks when jointing or
rabbeting wood that is narrower than 3 inches or planing
wood that is thinner than 3 inches (as illustrated).
Grasp the hold-down/push-blocks firmly with the fingers
close together and wrapped around the handle. Position
the hold-down/push-blocks tlat, on top of workpiece and
push the workpiece down against the table. This helps to
provide a qualify cut and minimize the chance of a kick-
back.
Hold-down pressure must also be sufficient to prevent
held-down/push-block sliding or slipping on the top face
of workpiece when advancing workpiece over cutter-
head.
Use a I_and-over-hand motion of the hold-down/push-
blocks, being careful to maintain control over the work-
piece at all times.
This means that once the workpiece has been fed past
the cutterhead onto the outfeed table, one hold-down/
push-block must always maintain contact of workpiece
with outfeed table,
WARNING: If the hold-downlpush-blocks tend to I
slip while feeding, clean rubber surface immedi-
I
ately with sandpaper,
When planing wood between 112 inch and 3/4 of an inch
thick and narrower than the hold-down/push-block, tilt the
hold-down/push-block so that it clears the tip of the cutter
guard while feeding.
Never ptane wood that is thinner than 1/2 inch. It is apt to
split or shatter and thus has a greater tendency to kick-
back.
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