Intended Use; General Safety Instructions - Festool TS 55 REBQ Notice D'utilisation D'origine/Liste De Pièces De Rechange

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Intended use

Plunge-cut saws are intended to be used for
sawing wood, materials similar to wood, plas-
ter and cement-bonded fibre materials and
plastics. When fitted with special saw blades
for aluminium offered by Festool, these ma-
chines can also be used for sawing aluminium.
Only saw blades with the following specifica-
tions may be used: Saw blade diameter
160 mm, cutting width 2,2 mm, location
hole 20 mm, max. standard blade thickness
1,8 mm, suitable for speeds up to 9500 rpm.
Never use abrasive wheels in the machine.
The machine is designed and approved for use
by trained persons or specialists only.
– Festool electric power tools must only
be installed on work tables provided by
Festool for this purpose. If the tool is in-
stalled in another, or self-made, work table,
it can become unstable and result in serious
accidents.
The user is liable for improper or non-
intended use.
5 Safety instructions
5.1

General safety instructions

WARNING! Read all safety warnings
and all instructions. Failure to follow
the warnings and instructions may result in
electric shock, fire and/or serious injury.
Save all warnings and instructions for fu-
ture reference.
The term "power tool" in the warnings refers
to your mains-operated (corded) power tool or
battery-operated (cordless) power tool.
5.2 Machine-related safety instruc-
tions
Cutting procedures
a. DANGER! Keep hands away from
cutting 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 work-
piece. The guard cannot protect you from
the blade below the workpiece.
c. Adjust the cutting depth to the thick-
ness of the workpiece. Less than a full
tooth of the blade teeth should be visible
below the workpiece.
d.Never hold piece being cut in your
hands or across your leg. Secure the
workpiece to a stable platform. It is im-
portant to support the work properly to
minimize body exposure, blade binding, or
loss of control.
e.Hold the power tool by insulated grip-
ping surfaces only, when performing
an operation where the cutting tool
may contact hidden wiring or its own
cord. Contact with a "live" wire will also
make exposed metal parts of the power
tool "live" and could give the 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
eccentrically, causing loss of control.
h.Never use damaged or incorrect blade
washers or bolt. The blade washers and
bolt were specially designed for your saw,
for optimum performance and safety of op-
eration.
i.Wear
equipment such as ear pro-
tection, safety goggles, a
dust mask for work which
generates dust, and protec-
tive gloves when working
with raw materials and when changing
tools.
Kickbacks causes and related warnings
– kickback is a sudden reaction to a pinched,
bound or misaligned saw blade, causing an
uncontrolled saw to lift up and out of the
workpiece toward the operator;
– when the blade is pinched or bound tightly
by the kerf closing down, the blade stalls
and the motor reaction drives the unit rap-
idly back toward 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 toward the operator.
Kickback is the result of saw misuse and/or
incorrect operating procedures or conditions
and can be avoided by taking proper precau-
tions as given below.
TS 55
GB
suitable protective
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