ASSEMBLY

WARNING:

Always remove battery pack from your saw when you are assembling parts, making adjustments, assembling or removing blades, cleaning, or when not in use. Removing battery pack will prevent accidental starting that could cause serious personal injury.

Loosen the blade clamp screw enough to permit the saw blade to be inserted between blade clamp and saw bar.

Note: It is never necessary to remove the blade clamp screw from the blade clamp when installing or removing blade.

Align the hole in the shank of the blade and blade clamp with the pin in the saw bar, then seat both on the pin in the saw bar.

TO REMOVE / ATTACH BATTERY PACK

See Figure 2.

TO REMOVE:

Locate latches on side of battery pack and depress both sides to release battery pack from your saw

Remove battery pack from your saw.

TO ATTACH:

Place the battery pack in your saw aligning raised rib on battery pack with groove in saw's battery port. See Figure 2.

Make sure the latches on each side of the battery pack snap into place and battery pack is secured to saw before beginning operation.

BATTERY PORT

DEPRESS LATCH

TO RELEASE

BATTERY PACK

BATTERY

PACK

LATCH

Fig. 2

 

TO INSTALL SAW BLADE

See Figure 3.

Remove battery pack. See Figure 2.

WARNING:

Failure to remove battery pack from saw could result in accidental starting causing possible serious personal injury.

Remove the 5 mm blade wrench provided with your saw from wrench holder. Note: Wrench holder is located in bottom portion of saw handle. See Figure 1.

Tighten blade clamp screw securely.

Remove blade wrench and store it in wrench holder.

Replace battery pack.

BLADE CLAMP

SAW BAR

 

HOLE IN

BLADE

SAW BLADE

CLAMP SCREW

 

 

PIN

BLADE CLAMP

 

BLADE

BLADE

 

CLAMP

 

 

 

 

SCREW

BLADE WRENCH

BLADE

 

(5 mm HEX KEY)

CLAMP HOLE

 

 

 

 

Fig. 3

Note: There may be times when the blade clamp sticks to the saw bar and will not loosen enough to allow blades to be installed or removed. If this happens, loosen the blade clamp screw with the blade wrench, then tap lightly on the end of the blade wrench with a mallet. See Figure 4.

BLADE

BLADE CLAMP

 

CLAMP SCREW

SAW BAR

 

BLADE WRENCH (5 mm HEX KEY)

MALLET

Fig. 4

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Ryobi RJC180 specifications Assembly, To Remove / Attach Battery Pack, To Install SAW Blade