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Table Saw

Safety

PPE

  • Safety glasses required
  • Hearing protection required
  • Respirator recommended - required for certain materials (ie MDF)

Entanglement risks

  • No loose clothing
  • No gloves
  • Long hair must be tied back
  • No loose jewellery (i.e. rings, watches) or accessories (i.e. cables).

Kickback risks

  • Ensure riving knife is properly installed:
    • The radial clearance between saw blade and riving knife may not exceed 5 mm (max.).
    • The thickness of the riving knife must be smaller than the cutting width and greater than the blade thickness.
    • The riving knife must always be in a line to the saw blade.
  • Stand with torso away from the cut line.
  • Ensure that as much as possible of the workpiece's length is in contact with the parallel guide while cutting.
  • Always use an angle guide when cross-cutting.
  • Never back stock off blade while running.
  • If the saw blade should become jammed, switch the machine off and hold the workpiece until the saw blade comes to a complete stop. To prevent kickback, the workpiece may not be moved until after the blade has come to a complete stop.

Startup checks

Surrounding area cleared of obstacles

Other workshop users alerted to keep clear, and to use appropriate PPE

Table clear of objects

The insert-plate in place and undamaged

Blade, blade guard, and riving knife set up correctly

  • Power off when performing checks
  • Aligned correctly
  • All adjustments tightened
    • Pay particular attention to the position of the locking lever for the bevel angle.
  • If using the blade guard, adjust it so that it faces loosely against the workpiece when sawing.
  • Ensure blade guard does not interfere with the workpiece
  • No damage to blade
  • Blade can be spun freely
  • Adjust blade height by turning the crank until upper saw teeth are ~ 5mm above the workpiece.
  • Blade is perpendicular to table (if sawing at 0°)

Workpiece free of any metals (nails, screws), glass etc.

Workpiece has a straight factory edge aligned to the parallel guide

  • Workpiece should lay flat on the table.

Wide workpieces must be underlaid or supported at their free side.

  • Check manual on how to pull out the saw-table extension.

For very long pieces, use an extra support roller or someone to bear the stock.

  • The “off bearer” is only there to support stock and should not pull stock through.

Usage

Starting of the machine

  • Turn on the extractor wall fan.
  • Turn on the dust extraction unit under the table saw.
  • Tap your tag on the access control
  • Open the red switch cover, and press the green button.

Stopping of the machine

  • Hit the switch cover, or open it and press the red button.

Sawing straight cuts

  • Set the parallel guide at desired width and lock it in place.

  • Use push sticks and auxiliary guide when cutting narrow pieces (10cm rule of thumb)

    • Have push sticks ready before starting the cut.
    • Check manual on how to install auxiliary guide if needed.

  • Saw by feeding the workpiece at a uniform rate

  • Ensure that the flat edge of the workpiece must always be touching the parallel guide.

  • Push stock completely past the back side of the blade.

Sawing Mitre Angles

  • Adjust the requested mitre angle
  • Place the workpiece against profile rail.
    • The profile may not be on the cutting line. If so, loosen knurled nut and move the profile.
  • With one hand, press the workpiece against the profile rail and with the other hand, slowly move the angle stop via locking knob toward the front in guide groove.

General

  • Never saw freehand unless confident and supervised.
  • Never clear small pieces while blade is moving
  • Never adjust blade height, angle, or any other parts while blade is moving
  • Keep hands away from blade while it is moving (never reach across the blade, or over-reach)
  • Use of push sticks is a must if hand would otherwise come closer than 10 cm to the blade.
  • To ensure the workpiece is in contact with the parallel guide, the force exerted on the workpiece should be at a slight angle toward the fence (as opposed to purely parallel to the blade).
    • One tip is to focus where the workpiece is with respect to the parallel guide, rather than the blade (while keeping awareness of the blade!).
  • Consider doing a practice cut with scrap wood if sawing mitres, and measuring that the angle is correct.

Intended Use (a.k.a Materials)

  • The power tool is intended as a stationary machine for making straight lengthways and crossways cuts in hard and softwood, as well as in particle and fibre board.
  • In this, mitre angles from –60° to +60° as well as bevel angles from –2° to 47° are possible.
  • When using appropriate saw blades, sawing aluminium profiles and plastic is also possible.
  • Maximum workpiece thickness:
    • 79mm at 0° bevel angle
    • 56mm at 45° bevel angle

Post Cutting

  • Once you have finished your cut, turn off the table saw, log out of the access control, and clean up the table saw and the surrounding area.
  • Place the angle guide back in its place.
  • Place the push-sticks back in their place.
  • Fully lower the blade
  • Turn off the dust extraction unit.
  • Turn off wall fan

Maintenance

General

  • If there are any issues, please contact a maintainer listed on the table saw wiki page. Example issues: damaged blade, terrible noises from moving parts.
  • Do not attempt to change the blade without a maintainer present, and notify the other members if the blade is intended for specific materials only.
    • Consider changing back to the regular blade if you don't want others to use yours.