I scanned my manual I can't seem to find it just this minute though. I am off for a shower then a little walk up town to get some masking tape and a bit of this and that, should be able to get it to you around noon if I still have it.
There isn't really anything to know though, the blade release is a slide on the centre of the hub you just slide out and turn like a crank while holding the lock button down, it is located on the top of the saw just inside the inner edge of the blade guard. There is a lever behind the motor near the guard to release to raise and lower the blade and one at the outer edge just in front of the motor housing I think to release the bevel angle. There is no safety switch lock, you squeeze until the trigger trips and the saw comes on. There is a sort of elbow pipe at the front of the blade guard you can rotate to direct the stream of sawdust more or less where you might like it to go. Turned around to face into the guard will eject most of the stream behind the saw. You can connect a vacuum to this I don't have anything that would fit and since I do most of my cutting of that sort of thing outside I don't much care. Inside I am too lazy to drag all that stuff out for a cut or two so I just walk through the dust until I have tracked enough of it into a convenient place to sweep it up, usually under the kitchen table where my Janet wet/dry will eventually get it. My only disappointment, and I never thought of it at the time is that there is no electronic break as there is on several saws now. While it isn't a big deal, I have never had one before and the one on my Makita sliding compound mitre saw is intermittent at best, somehow i believe I would have liked one on the MAG saw. I really like the weight and the thin kerf blade that comes with it is really quite remarkable. Mine just walked through three full ganged thicknesses of 3/4ths hardwood plywood full length cuts like it wasn't there. For me though the real selling point is no blasted wrench for blade change. Why someone didn't come up with that before now is beyond me. It isn't that I change blades all that often it is just the convenience and intelligence behind that solution I felt this need to reward the manufacturer who finally came up with it. You are warned not to tighten the blade down too tight and I think this is correct, that device grabs like your wife's ugly sister. You won't get it off once firmly attached. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:04 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] It's Here Thank you sir... I will do the same just as soon as I get to the end of this damn report. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Kennedy Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] It's Here There are manuals available online often times in the PDF format. I did a quick search this morning and didn't come up with one quickly but when I have a little time I'll look again. A lot of time places like Rockler will have the manual hidden in their web site and you stumble on it by accident... ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:01 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] It's Here Hi Guys, Well the "Porter Cable Mag Saw" showed up on my door-step about 8:PM last night. Do any of you know where I might find a copy of the manual in electronic format? Looking foreword to firing this mother up. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 143143424) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=143143424&m=ee036a4dd791&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=143143424&m=ee036a4dd791&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=143143424&m=ee036a4dd791&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
