Troubleshooting

Cutting Problem

Possible Cause(s)

What to Do

Workpiece strikes riving knife

Riving knife not in line with

Align riving knife to blade

during ripping

blade

 

Workpiece binds, smokes,

Saw blade out of alignment

Re-align

and motor slows or stops

Warped workpiece

Do not cut severely warped

when ripping

 

pieces

 

Feed rate too fast

Slow feed rate

 

Carriage assembly loose

Adjust carriage bearings, then

 

 

realign saw

 

Fence not straight

Replace fence

 

Dull or incorrect blade

Sharpen or replace blade

Board pulls away from fence during ripping

Saw blade out of alignment

Re-align

May occur as normal result of

Use featherboard on infeed

applying feed pressure

side

Saw Problem

Radial arm moves when locked in a non-indexed miter position

Motor moves when bevel lock is locked

Yoke moves when rip lock is locked

Blade carriage does not travel smoothly on arm

Possible Cause(s)

What to Do

Miter not locked firmly

Adjust miter lock for wear

Bevel not locked firmly

Adjust bevel lock for wear

Rip lock not locked firmly

Adjust rip lock for wear

Dirty track

Clean and lubricate track

Carriage bearings set too tight

Adjust carriage bearings, then

 

realign saw

Rip lock rubbing track

Loosen Rip Lock

Worn steel track

Replace track

Bad carriage bearing

Replace carriage bearing

Blade does not stop spinning

Blade nut loose

Tighten blade nut

within 15 seconds after saw is

Internal damage

Contact RIDGID service cen-

turned off

 

ter

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RIDGID SP6263 manual Saw Problem, Possible Causes What to Do