Homelite CSP3816 User Manual

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For your safety, study this entire manual before operating
the saw. Pay particular attention to the precautions and
instructions listed in the operator’s manual.

The warnings and instructions in this section of the
operator’s manual are for your safety and to prevent
serious personal injury.

The SAFE-T-TIP

®

 prevents kick-back because it covers the

tip of the bar where rotational kick-back is generated.
Inexperienced persons should never attempt to cut when
the SAFE-T-TIP

®

 has been removed from the bar tip.

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Users, such as professional loggers who need to draw the
tip through the cut, make boring cuts, or cut logs bigger
than the bar length, should reinstall the SAFE-T-TIP

®

 as

soon as those cuts are complete. When cutting without the
SAFE-T-TIP

®

, the user must use proper techniques as

shown in the manual to avoid kick-back.

 Refer to “Maintenance” later in this manual for

instructions on reinstalling the SAFE-T-TIP

®

 nose guard.

The rakers (depth gauges) ahead of each cutter can
minimise the force of a kick-back reaction by preventing
the cutters from digging in too deeply at the kick-back
zone. Only use replacement chain which is equivalent to
the original chain or has been certified as a low
kick-back chain.

As saw chains are sharpened, they lose some of the low
kick-back qualities and extra caution is required.

Generally, guide bars with small radius tips have somewhat
lower kick-back potentials.

When making a replacement, be sure to order one of the
Homelite bars listed for your saw in this operator’s manual.
The proper size SAFE-T-TIP

®

 nose guard comes installed

on the bar. Use only guide bars that have a provision for
mounting the SAFE-T-TIP

®

.