English
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WARNING:
To avoid injury, the blade tension,
tracking, upper and lower guides and bearings must
be properly adjusted before operating the band saw.
(See
Adjustment instructions
section)
WARNING:
Before operation always make sure the
blade is in center of table insert slot.
Installing A New Belt (Fig. I)
1. Open the lower wheel cover.
2. Loosen the blade tension by turning the blade tension
knob.
3. Remove the blade from the lower blade wheel assembly.
4. Using a snap ring pliers, remove snap ring
34
that
secures lower blade wheel
11
to shaft
35
and
flange
36
on the lower blade wheel.
5. Loosen the belt tension by loosen the hex screw on
the motor with a 6 mm hex wrench. See "
Drive Belt
Tension
" on page 13.
6. Slide lower blade wheel assembly off the shaft
35
which will dislodge the belt. Remove the old belt.
7. Place the new belt on the saw pulley and the motor
pulley.
8. When the pulley belt is positioned properly, tighten the
hex screw on the motor.
nOTE:
The pulley belt is properly tensioned when there
is a 1/2 in. (12.7 mm) deflection if pressed in the center
of the pulleys.
9. Replace the lower blade wheel
11
. Push the wheel in
firmly until it is touching the shaft step. Replace and
tighten the flange
36
and snap ring
34
.
10. Reinstall the blade. See "
installing And Removing
Blade - installing
" section on page 10.
11. Adjust the blade tension, tracking, the upper and lower
blade guides and bearings before operating the band
saw.
WARNING:
To avoid injury, the blade tension,
tracking, upper and lower guides and bearings must
be properly adjusted before operating the band saw.
(See
Adjustment instructions
section)
Installing (Fig. G, H)
1. Make sure the blade tension knob
1
is turned
counterclockwise enough to get blade over pulleys.
(Fig. G)
2. Remove old blade as explained in "Removing" section.
3. Guide the new blade
24
through the blade guard
slot
33
of the left side blade guard. Make sure the blade
teeth are pointing forward and down. (Fig. H)
nOTE:
To avoid lifting the workpiece, the blade teeth
must point downward toward the table.
4. Place the blade
24
on the upper blade wheel
2
and
lower blade wheel
11
.
5. Place the blade carefully between the upper blade
guide
6
and lower blade guide
9
.
6. Slide the blade into the table slot
27
, and make sure
the blade is positioned at the middle of the wheels.
7. Turning the blade tension knob
1
clockwise, tighten
the tension until the blade is tight on the wheels.
(Fig. G)
8. Close the blade guard
5
, and raise the blade guard to
the desired height by turning the blade guide height
adjustment knob
4
. (Fig. H)
9. Tighten the upper blade guide lock knob
25
.
10. Replace the table aligning pad.
11. Adjust the blade tracking and tension properly (See
Adjustment instructions
section) before operating the
band saw.
Fig. H
25
4
5
24
6
27
2
11
33
Fig. I
11
34
35
36
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