ASSEMBLY
WARNING:
Failure to unplug your saw could result in accidental starting causing possible serious personal injury.
■Push down on the saw arm and pull out the lock pin to release saw arm. Raise saw arm to its full raised posi- tion. Be cautious, saw arm is spring loaded to raise.
■Gently raise the lower blade guard bracket, releasing lower blade guard from notch so that it can be rotated up. See Figure 10.
■Loosen the phillips screw on the blade bolt cover until blade bolt cover can be raised. See Figure 11.
■Rotate the lower blade guard and blade bolt cover up and back to expose the blade bolt.
■Depress the spindle lock button and rotate the blade bolt until the spindle locks. See Figure 12.
■Using the blade wrench provided, loosen and remove the blade bolt.
NOTE: The blade bolt has left hand threads. Turn blade bolt clockwise to loosen.
■Remove outer blade washer. Do not remove inner blade washer.
■Wipe a drop of oil onto inner blade washer and outer blade washer where they contact the blade.
WARNING:
If inner blade washer has been removed, replace it before placing blade on spindle. Failure to do so could cause an accident since blade will not tighten properly.
■Fit saw blade inside lower blade guard and onto spindle. The blade teeth point downward at the front of saw as shown in figure 11.
CAUTION:
Always install the blade with the blade teeth and the arrow printed on the side of the blade pointing down at the front of the saw. The direction of blade rotation is also stamped with an arrow on the upper blade guard.
■Replace outer blade washer. The double "D" flats on the blade washers align with the flats on the spindle.
■Depress spindle lock button and replace blade bolt.
NOTE: The blade bolt has left hand threads. Turn blade bolt counterclockwise to tighten.
■Tighten blade bolt securely.
■Remove the blade wrench and store it for future use in a safe place.
■Replace the lower blade guard and blade bolt cover.
■Retighten phillips screw securing blade bolt cover.
LOWER
BLADE GUARD
NOTCH |
|
LOWER BLADE | T |
| R |
| O |
GUARD BRACKET | A |
O | |
| T |
| I |
| N |
Fig. 10
LOWER
BLADE GUARD
PHILLIPS |
| |
SCREW |
| |
BLADE | FLAT (S) | |
ON SPINDLE | ||
BOLT COVER | ||
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| INNER BLADE |
| T | WASHER WITH |
| R |
|
N | O | DOUBLE "D" FLATS |
A | ||
T | O | |
O | T |
|
I | I |
|
A | N |
|
T |
|
|
O |
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|
R |
|
|
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| BLADE |
TO | TO | OUTER BLADE WASHER |
LOOSEN | ||
| TIGHTEN | WITH DOUBLE "D" FLATS |
BLADE BOLT | Fig. 11 | |
SPINDLE
LOCK
BUTTON
Fig. 12 |
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