Safety Instructions For Specific Circular Saws - Festool HKC 55 EB Manual De Instrucciones

a lack of practical experience and knowledge,
provided they are supervised or have been in-
structed to use the machine safely and under-
stand the dangers of machine operation.
Children are not allowed use or play with the ma-
chine.
– Do not open the battery pack or the charger!
– Prevent metal parts (e.g. metal chips) or fluids
from entering the charger!
– Do not use power adapters or battery packs
form other manufacturers to operate the cord-
less power tool. Do not use any charger from
other manufacturers for charging the battery
pack. The use of impermissible accessories may
result in electric shock and / or serious acci-
dents!
– Protect the battery pack from excessive heat > 50
°C or constant heat sources such as sunlight or
naked flames!
– Never use water to extinguish burning li-ion bat-
tery packs! Use sand or a fire blanket.
– Protect the machine from moisture.
– Protect the cable from heat, oil and sharp edges.
– Check the plug and the cable regularly and
should either become damaged, in order to avoid
a hazard, have them replaced by an authorised
after-sales service workshop.
2.3 Safety instructions for specific circular
saws
Cutting procedures
DANGER!
a.
ting area and the blade. Keep your second hand
on auxiliary handle, or motor housing. If both
hands are holding the saw, they cannot be cut by
the blade.
b. Do not reach underneath the workpiece. The
guard cannot protect you from the blade below
the workpiece.
c. Adjust the cutting depth to the thickness of the
workpiece. Less than a full tooth of the blade
teeth should be visible below the workpiece.
d. Never hold the workpiece in your hands or
across your leg while cutting. Secure the work-
piece to a stable platform. It is important to sup-
port the work properly to minimize body
exposure, blade binding, or loss of control.
e. Hold the power tool by insulated gripping sur-
faces, when performing an operation where the
cutting tool may contact hidden wiring. Contact
with a "live" wire will also make exposed metal
parts of the power tool "live" and could give the
Keep hands away from cut-
operator an electric shock.
f. When ripping, always use a rip fence or straight
edge guide. This improves the accuracy of cut
and reduces the chance of blade binding.
g. Always use blades with correct size and shape
(diamond versus round) of arbour holes. Blades
that do not match the mounting hardware of the
saw will run off-centre, causing loss of control.
h. Never use damaged or incorrect blade washers
or bolt. The blade washers and bolt were spe-
cially designed for your saw, for optimum perfor-
mance and safety of operation.
i.Wear suitable protective equip-
ment such as ear protection,
safety goggles, a dust mask for
work which generates dust, and
protective gloves when working
with raw materials and when
changing tools.
Kickbacks causes and related warnings
– kickback is a sudden reaction to a pinched,
jammed or misaligned saw blade, causing an un-
controlled saw to lift up and out of the workpiece
toward the operator;
– when the blade is pinched or jammed tightly by
the kerf closing down, the blade stalls and the
motor reaction drives the unit rapidly back to-
ward the operator;
– if the blade becomes twisted or misaligned in the
cut, the teeth at the back edge of the blade can
dig into the top surface of the wood causing the
blade to climb out of the kerf and jump back to-
ward the operator.
Kickback is the result of saw misuse and/or incor-
rect operating procedures or conditions and can be
avoided by taking proper precautions as given be-
low.
a. Maintain a firm grip with both hands on the saw
and position your arms to resist kickback forc-
es. Position your body to either side of the
blade, but not in line with the blade. Kickback
could cause the saw to jump backwards, but
kickback forces can be controlled by the operator,
if proper precautions are taken.
b. When blade is binding, or when interrupting a
cut for any reason, release the trigger and hold
the saw motionless in the material until the
blade comes to a complete stop. Never attempt
to remove the saw from the work or pull the saw
backward while the blade is in motion or kick-
back may occur. Investigate and take corrective
actions to eliminate the cause of blade binding.
c. When restarting a saw in the workpiece, centre
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