Grizzly G0700 owner manual Dado Cutting, Installing Dado Blade

Dado Cutting

Commonly used in furniture joinery, a dado is a straight channel cut in the face of the workpiece. Dadoes are "non-through" cuts that can be made with a dado blade or a standard saw blade. The Figure below shows a cutaway view of a dado cut being made with a dado blade.

Installing Dado Blade

1.	DISCONNECT SAW FROM POWER!
2.	Move the sliding table out of the way to
	expose the lower blade cover.
3.	Remove the standard blade. To loosen the
	arbor nut, insert the arbor lock tool that came
	with the saw and turn the arbor nut clockwise
	(it has left-hand threads).
4.	Remove the spacer block installed on the

Dado Blade

Workpiece

Fence

arbor behind the standard blade you removed

in Step 3. The spacer block is not used when

dado blades are installed (see Figure 68).

Spacer Block

Figure 66. Example of a dado being cut with a

dado blade.

This saw can only accept a dado blade with 5⁄8" arbor hole and maximum width of 13⁄16". If you have any doubts or questions about the size of dado blade you want to install, call our Technical Support before proceeding.

In order to install a dado blade, the scoring blade should be removed and a zero-clearance table insert must be made specifically for the dado blade you will install (see Figure 67). Refer to Zero-Clearance Insert on Page 52 for instruc- tions on how to do this.

Dado

Blade

Shop-Made

Zero-Clearance

Table Insert

Figure 67. Dado blade raised into shop-made

zero-clearance table insert.

If you plan on making dadoes at varying widths, we strongly recommend making a zero-clearance table insert for each thickness of dado blade that will be used.

Model G0700 (Mfg. since 8/09)

Figure 68. Dado blade installed on saw with new

zero-clearance table insert.

5.Assemble/adjust the dado blade system to the desired width of cut, according to the dado blade manufacturer’s instructions.

6.Install the dado blade on the arbor shaft, as shown in Figure 69.

Figure 69. Installing a dado blade.

DO NOT make through cuts with a dado blade. Dado blades are only intended for non-through cuts. Failure to heed this warning could result in serious injury.

-41-