Installation Instructions
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SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
GLOSSARY OF
WOODWORKING TERMS
1. Spindle: The revolving shaft on which a
blade or cutting tool is mounted.
2. Spindle Lock: Allows the user to stop
the blade from rotating while tightening
or loosening the blade screw during blade
replacement or removal.
3. Bevel Cut: A cutting operation made
with the blade at any angle other than
90° to the miter table.
4. Chamfer Cut: A cut that removes a
wedge from a block of wood so that the end
(or part of the end) is angled at other than 90°.
5. Compound Miter Cut: A cut made
using both a miter angle and a bevel angle
at the same time.
6. Crosscut: A cutting operation made
across the grain of the work piece.
7. Slide Rails: Guide the head assembly
when making a slide cut.
8. Head Assembly Locking pin: The
compound miter saw is equipped with a
locking pin that is used to lock the head
assembly in the down position.
9. Flange: A ring or collar on the end of a
spindle or arbor that permits other objects,
such as a blade, to be attached to it.
10. Freehand Cut: Performing a cut without
using a fence, miter gauge, xture, work
clamp, or other proper device to keep the
work piece from twisting or moving during
the cut. Do not perform any operation
freehand. Use a clamp or vise wherever
possible.
11. Kerf: The material removed by the blade
in a through cut, or the slot produced by the
blade in a non-through or partial cut.
12. Kickback: A hazard that can occur when
the blade binds or stalls, throwing the work
piece back toward the operator.
13. Miter Cut: A cutting operation made with
the blade at any angle other than 90° to the
fence.
14. No-Hands Zone: The area between the
marked lines on the left and right side of
the miter-table base. This zone is identied
by No-Hands Zone symbols inside the lines
marked on the miter table base.
15. Non-through Cut: Any cutting operation
where the blade does not extend
completely through the thickness of the
work piece.
16. Revolutions Per Minute (RPM): The
number of turns completed by a spinning
object in one minute.
17. Saw Blade Path: The area over, under,
behind, or in front of the blade, as it
applies to the work piece; the area that will
be or has been cut by the blade.
18. Set: The distance that the saw blade
tooth is bent (or set) outward from the
face of the blade.
19. Throat Plate: A plate inserted in the
Miter Saw’s table that allows for blade
clearance.
20. Through Sawing: Any cutting operation
where the blade extends completely through
the thickness of the work piece.
21. Work piece or Material: The item on
which the cutting operation is being done.
The surfaces of a work piece are commonly
referred to as faces, ends, and edges.