Table Of Contents - Craftsman 315.175500 Owner's Manual

• Typical Applications ........................................................................................................................................ 2
• Table Of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 3
• Warranty and Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3
• Rules For Safe Operation .......................................................................................................................... 4-6
• Product Specifications, Unpacking, and Accessories .................................................................................... 7
• Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 8-9
• Adjustments ............................................................................................................................................ t 0-11
• Operation ................................................................................................................................................. 12-17
• Maintenance ........................................................................................................................................... 18-20
• Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................................ 21
• Exploded View and Repair Parts List ..................................................................................................... 22-23
• Parts Ordering / Service ............................................................................................................................... 24
FULL ONE YEAR WARRANTY ON CRAFTSMAN DETAIL BISCUIT JOINER
If this £11RF'I'$MRNBiscuit Joiner fails to give complete satisfaction within one year from the date of purchase,
RETURN IT TO THE NEAREST SEARS STORE IN THE UNITED STATES, and Sears will repair it, free of
charge.
If this CRRFT$14RNBiscuit Joiner is used for commercial or rental purposes, this warranty applies for only 90 days
from the date of purchase.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., Dept. 817WA, Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
Your Biscuit Joiner has many features for making
cutting operations more pleasant and enjoyable.
Safety, performance and dependability have been
given top priority in the design of this Biscuit Joiner,
making it easy to maintain and operate.
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CAUTION:
Carefully read through this entire
owner's manual before u._g your new Biscuit
Joiner. Pay close attention to the Rules For
Safe Operation, Warnings and Cautions. If you
use your Biscuit Joiner properly and only for
what it is intended, you will enjoy years of safe,
reliable service.
Spline joinery is one of the strongest methods of
joinery used in woodworking. When glue is properly
applied to a spline and to the joint area of the wood
pieces being connected, a large surface area receives
the adhesion properties of the glue. This forms a very
strong joint.
Traditional spline joinery requires cutting slots with a
router or table saw. Small, thin strips of wood must
then be cut to fit inside the slots and act as splines.
Newer methods of spline joinery use a plate or biscuit
joiner to cut precise mating oval slots in adjoining
boards. Your new Biscuit Joiner is a fast, simple, and
accurate plunge cutting tool that can be used for this
purpose. It can be used to cut slots in hardwood,
softwood, plywood, particle board, and other pressed
woods.
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Football shaped wafers, called biscuits, are then
placed inside the slots with glue and used to help line
up adjoining surfaces. When a water based glue is
used, the biscuits swell in the joint, making an ex-
tremely strong and firm bond. White glue, yellow glue,
carpenters glue, hide glue, and aliphatic resin glue are
examples of water based glues.
This bonding technique has traditionally been limited
to making edge-to-edge joints. However, with the use
of your new Biscuit Joiner, biscuits can now be easily
used to connect butt, miter, and T-joints. Biscuit
joining can be as strong as mortise and tenon, tongue
and groove, standard spline, and doweled joints. In
most cases the material around the biscuit will break
before the biscuit itself will break. A greater surface
area is exposed to glue in a biscuit joint, making the
seams stronger.