# Preparing for operation

To ensure precise cuts, the basic settings of the power tool must be checked and adjusted as necessary after intensive use.
Experience and suitable special tools are required for this.

A Bosch after-sales service point will handle this work quickly and reliably.

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The free end of long and heavy workpieces must have something placed underneath it or be supported.

The saw table can be extended left and right using the saw table extensions (16).

- Loosen the clamping screw (42).
- Pull out the saw table extension (16) to the required length.
- Retighten the clamping screw (42) to fix the saw table extension.

The flexible connector system of the workpiece supports (17) enables a multitude of extension or expansion variants.

- Insert the workpiece support (17) into the openings (44) on the power tool or into the openings (45) of the second workpiece support as required.

- Never carry the power tool using the workpiece supports.
  Only use the transport devices to transport the power tool.

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You have to remove the left/right adjustable fence (19) to saw bevel angles.

- Loosen the wing bolts (38).
- Remove the adjustable fence (19).

After sawing the bevel angles, reinsert the adjustable fence (19) and tighten the wing bolts (38).

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To ensure maximum safety while working, the workpiece must always be firmly clamped.
Do not saw workpieces that are too small to clamp firmly.

### Vertical Clamping

- Press the workpiece firmly against the (18) and (19) fences.
- Insert the supplied screw clamp (20) into one of the corresponding holes (39).
- Loosen the wing bolt (51) and adjust the screw clamp to the workpiece. Tighten the wing bolt again.
- Tighten the threaded rod (52) to fix the workpiece in place.

### Horizontal clamping

- Unscrew the wing bolt (53) and pull apart the screw clamp.
- Insert the screw clamp (20) that has now been taken apart with the pin (54) into one of the corresponding holes (28).
- Press the workpiece firmly onto the saw table (29).
- Tighten the threaded rod (52) to fix the workpiece in place.

### Releasing the workpiece

- To loosen the screw clamp, turn the threaded rod (52) anticlockwise.