Safety Instructions For Transportable Threading Machines; Description, Specifications And Standard Equipment Description - RIDGID 300 Compact Manual

300 Compact/1233 Threading Machines
300 Compact/1233 Threading Machines to reduce
the risk of electrical shock or other serious injury.
SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!
Keep this manual with machine for use by the operator.
Safety Instructions for Transportable
Threading Machines
This threading machine is not equipped with a foot switch.
Foot switches are required by standards in certain mar-
kets, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, the
European Union, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Do not
use machines without foot switches if standards require
them. Foot switches improve operational convenience
and reduce risk. When foot switches are required, they
should be hardwired to the machine.
• Keep floor dry and free of slippery materials such as
oil. Slippery floors invite accidents.
• Restrict access or barricade the area when work
piece extends beyond machine to provide a mini-
mum of one meter clearance from the work piece.
Restricting access or barricading the work area around
the work piece will reduce the risk of entanglement.
• Do not wear gloves. Gloves may be entangled by the
rotating pipe or machine parts leading to personal
injury.
• Do not use for other purposes such as drilling
holes or turning winches. Other uses or modifying this
machine for other applications may increase the risk of
serious injury.
• This machine is used to cut, ream and thread pipe
per these instructions. Do not use with equipment
which require the use of a foot switch, such as geared
threaders or roll groovers.
• Secure machine to bench or stand. Support long
heavy pipe with pipe supports. This practice will
prevent tipping.
• Operate the machine from the operator control
(switch) side. Be sure you can control the switch at
all times. Operating the machine from the switch side
improves control and eliminates need to reach over the
machine. Switch control helps to reduce the risk of seri-
ous injury.
• Do not leave machine running unattended. Place
switch in OFF position when plugging in and not in use
to reduce the risk of entanglement.
• Keep hands away from rotating pipe and fittings.
Stop the machine before wiping pipe threads or
screwing on fittings. Allow the machine to come to
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a complete stop before touching the pipe. This
practice will reduce the chance of entanglement in
rotating parts.
• Do not use this machine to install or remove (make
or break) fittings, it is not an intended use of the
machine. This practice could lead to trapping, entan-
glement and loss of control.
• Keep covers in place. Do not operate the machine
with covers removed. Exposing moving parts increas-
es the probability of entanglement.
• One person must control the work process and
ma chine operation. Only the operator should be in the
work area when the machine is running. This helps
reduce the risk of injury.
• Never reach into the machine front chuck or rear
centering head. This will reduce the risk of entan-
glement.
• Read and understand these instructions and the
instructions and warnings for all equipment and
materials being used before operating this tool to
reduce the risk of serious personal injury.
If you have any question concerning this RIDGID
– Contact your local RIDGID
– Visit www.RIDGID.com to find your local RIDGID
contact point.
– Contact Ridge Tool Technical Service Department
at rtctechservices@emerson.com, or in the U.S. and
Cana da call (800) 519-3456.
Description, Specifications
And Standard Equipment
Description
The RIDGID ® Model 300 Compact and 1233 Threading
Machines are electric motor-driven machines that center
and chuck pipe, conduit and bolt stock and rotates it while
cutting, reaming and threading operations are performed.
Threading dies are mounted in a variety of available die
heads. An integral oiling system with adjustable flow rate
is provided to flood the work with thread cutting oil during
the threading operation.
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