_ WARNING: To prevent accidental starting that could cause possible serious personal injury,

assemble all parts to your saw before connecting it to power supply. Saw should never be connected to power supply when you are assembling parts, making adjustments, installing or removing blades, or when not in use.

As mentioned previously your saw has been factory assembled and adjusted. The miter lock handle, dust

guide, and blade are the only parts that have to be installed.

MITER LOCK HANDLE

See Figure 8.

To install the miter lock handle, place the threaded stud on the end of the miter lock handle into the threaded hole in the control arm. Turn clockwise to tighten.

TIGHTEN

MITERARMMITER

LOCKHANDLETABLE

Fig. 8

DUST GUIDE

See Figure 9.

To install the dust guide, place the end marked INSERT over the exhaust port in the upper blade

guard. Turn the guide so that the open end is facing down Or toward the rear of the saw.

EXHAUST

PORT

DUSTGUIDE

Fig. 9

TO INSTALL BLADE

See Figures 10, 11, and 12.

WARNING: A 10 in. blade is the maximum blade capacity of your saw, Never use a blade

that is too thick to allow outer blade washer to engage with the fiats on the spindle. Larger blades will come in contact with the b/ade guards, while thicker blades will prevent the blade screw from securing the blade on the spindle. Either of these situations could result in a serious accident and can cause serious personal injury.

I= Unplug your saw.

WARNING: Failure to unplug your saw could result in accidental starting causing possible

serious personal injury.

Push down on the sew arm and pull out the lock pin to release sew arm. Raise sew arm to its full

raised position. Be cautious, saw arm is spring loaded to raise.

Loosen the phillips screw on the blade bolt cover until blade bolt cover can be raised.

See Figures 10 and 11.

Gently raise the lower blade guard bracket, releasing lower blade guard from notch so that lower blade guard and blade bolt cover can be rotated up and back to expose the blade bolt. See Figures 10 and 11.

LOWER

BLADEGUARD

NOTCH

LOWERBLADE

Fig. 10

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Craftsman 315.23538 owner manual See Figures 10, 11