Assembly: The saw blades should always be handled carefully, easily damaged by heavy blows or jolts. Therefore, a blade should never be laid on a hard surface, and a little extra care should be taken when fitting them into the machine.
Feeding: The feed rate should be within limits. The material should be fed parallel to the blade, and oblique feeding can damage the teeth and scorch it.
Cleaning and Storing: The blade should always be kept clean. Never scrape the blade clean with a hard utensil. When the blade is not in use, it should be kept in the original carton, cleaned and well-oiled to prevent rusting.
Re-sharpening and Re-conditioning: It is uneconomical to continue using a blade that has become dull. In this way, the teeth can be damaged, with the result that an unnecessarily large amount of the tipping must be ground off in sharpening, which reduces the life of the blade. Sharpening of these blades is precision work which entails the use of special equipment.