Making A Compound Miter Cut - Craftsman 315.228590 Owner's Manual

MAKING A COMPOUND (BEVEL) MITER CUT
See Figure 68.
Practice on scrap wood. From the front of the saw,
push the wood to the blade with the miter gage. Do
not use the rip fence.
_1, WARNING: Make sure the blade guard is
lowered over the blade and is working properly to
prevent possible injury.
,_, WARNING: When the blade is angled to the
left, the miter gage must be on the right side of
the blade. Otherwise the gage could trap the
workpiece, possibly causing kickback and
resulting in injury.
• Set blade angle and height by loosening the bevel
lock handle and turning the height and bevel
handwheels. Retighten bevel lock handle.
• Set wood angle by loosening miter gage knob and
setting it to desired angle.
• 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.
• Insert switch key and lift switch to ON position. Let
blade obtain full speed.
• Hold work firmly against miter gage with both
hands and push miter gage to feed work into blade.
• When work is completed, press switch off and
remove switch key.
COMPOUND(BEVEL) MITERCUT
PLACERIGHTHAND
\
| ON WORKPIECE AND
MITERGAGEHERE
WHENMITERGAGEIS
ON RIGHTSIDE OF BLADE
PLACELEFTHANDON
MITERGAGEKNOBHERE
Fig. 68
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