Use and Care Manual

ENGLISH
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Mounting Non-Hubbed Wheels (Fig. G)
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WARNING: Failure to properly seat the flanges and/or
wheel could result in serious injury (or damage to the
tool orwheel).
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CAUTION: Included flanges must be used with
depressed center Type 27/42 grinding wheels and
Type1/41 cutting wheels. See the Accessories Chart
for moreinformation.
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WARNING: A closed, two-sided cutting wheel guard
is required when using abrasive cutting wheels or
diamond coated cuttingwheels.
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WARNING: Use of a damaged flange or guard or fail-
ure to use proper flange and guard can re sult in injury
due to wheel breakage and wheel contact. See the
Accessories Chart for moreinformation.
1. Place the tool on a table, guardup.
2. Install the backing flange
6
on spindle
4
with the
raised center (pilot) facing thewheel. Press the backing
flange intoplace.
3. Place wheel
18
against the backing flange,
centering the wheel on the raised center (pilot) of the
backingflange.
4. While depressing the spindle lock button and with the
hex depressions facing away from the wheel, thread the
locking flange
7
on spindle so that the lugs engage the
two slots in thespindle.
5. While depressing the spindle lock button, tighten the
locking flange
7
by hand or using the wrench supplied.
(Only use a locking flange if it is in perfect condition.)
Refer to Accessory Chart to see flangedetails.
6. To remove the wheel, reverse the aboveprocedure.
Fig. G
7
18
4
6
Mounting Sanding Backing Pads
(Fig. A, H)
NOTE: Use of a guard with sanding discs that use backing
pads, often called fiber resin discs, is not required. Since a
guard is not required for these accessories, the guard may or
may not fit correctly ifused.
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WARNING: Failure to properly seat the clamp nut
and/or pad could result in serious injury (or damage
to the tool orwheel).
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WARNING: Proper guard must be reinstalled for
grinding wheel, cutting wheel, sanding flap disc,
wire brush or wire wheel applications after sanding
applications arecomplete.
1. Place or appropriately thread backing pad
15
on
thespindle.
2. Place the sanding disc
19
on the backing pad
15
.
3. While depressing spindle lock button
3
, thread the
sanding clamp nut
17
on spindle, piloting the raised
hub on the clamp nut into the center of san ding disc
and backingpad.
4. Tighten the clamp nut by hand. Then depress the
spindle lock button while turning the sanding disc until
the sanding disc and clamp nut aresnug.
5. To remove the wheel, grasp and turn the backing
pad and sanding pad while depressing the spindle
lockbutton.
Fig. H
17
19
15
Mounting and Removing Hubbed
Wheels (Fig. A)
Hubbed wheels install directly on the spindle. Thread of
accessory must match thread ofspindle.
1. Remove backing flange by pulling away fromtool.
2. Thread the wheel on the spindle
4
byhand.
3. Depress the spindle lock button
3
and use a wrench to
tighten the hub of thewheel.
4. Reverse the above procedure to remove thewheel.
NOTICE: Failure to properly seat the wheel before
turning the tool on may result in damage to the tool
or thewheel.
Mounting Wire Cup Brushes and
Wire Wheels (Fig. A)
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WARNING: Failure to properly seat the brush/wheel
could result in serious injury (or damage to the tool
orwheel).
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CAUTION: To reduce the risk of personal injury,
wear work gloves when handling wire brushes
and wheels. They can becomesharp.
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CAUTION: To reduce the risk of damage to the
tool, wheel or brush must not touch guard when
mounted or while in use. Undetectable damage
could occur to the accessory, causing wires to
fragment from accessory wheel orcup.