Getting started with your Metabo KGS 216 M

Follow these steps and make your Metabo KGS 216 M ready for use.

Step 1: remove the safety protection

Step 2: fix your workpiece in place

Step 3: use the laser

Step 4: collect dust

Of course you can not go far with safety still on. Taking off the safety is a trick that you have to master. The pin that cuts straight into the radial arm saw and stops the saw blade, is firmly fixed and difficult to get out of because there is a lot of pressure on it.

Tip: Try to protect the release by slightly moving the saw head back and forth and creating some play. You get the pin out very easily and the Metabo KGS 216 M is ready for use.

The last thing you want is that your carefully selected planks shift during sawing. Sad and unnecessary! The material clamp can be turned against your work piece from above and from the front, so that there is always a suitable way to ensure stability.

Tip: What can also contribute to the strength of the crosscut saw is to attach an MDF board under the saw. So you know for sure that the KGS 216 M does not shift on your workbench and it is still light enough to move.

The laser guide makes it a lot easier to cut straight, in exactly the place that you have in mind. Remember that the red line is less visible when you work outside in the sun. The laser and lighting work on the same mains supply, the connection of which is incorporated in the handle. So you do not have to take into account batteries that are running low. If the laser does not do it and the lighting does, you know that it is up to the laser itself.

The dust bag is a nice addition for fast sawing jobs, but if you really want to keep your workplace clean, then only the dust bag is not enough. Connect a (construction) vacuum cleaner to the Metabo KGS 216 M to immediately absorb a large part of the saw waste. The dust bag catches up on (especially) fine dust, but considerable amounts of sawdust really end up on the ground if you do not connect a vacuum cleaner.