5
English
Fig. C
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ASSEMBLY AND ADJUSTMENTS
WARNING: To reduce the risk of serious personal injury, turn unit off and disconnect
it from power source before making any adjustments or removing/installing
attachments or accessories.
An accidental start-up can cause injury.
nOTE:
Your miter saw is fully and accurately adjusted at the factory at the time of manufacture.
If readjustment due to shipping and handling or any other reason is required, follow the steps
below to adjust your saw.
Once made, these adjustments should remain accurate. Take a little time now to follow these
directions carefully to maintain the accuracy of which your saw is capable.
Changing or Installing a New Saw Blade (Fig. D–F)
WARNING: To reduce the risk of serious personal injury, turn off the tool and
disconnect it from the power source before attempting to move it, change
accessories or make any adjustments.
CAUTION:
• Never depress the spindle lock button while the blade is under power or coasting.
• Do not cut ferrous metal (containing iron or steel) or masonry or fiber cement product
with this miter saw.
Removing the Blade
1. Unplug the saw.
2. Raise the arm to the upper position and raise the lower guard
4
as far as possible.
3. Loosen, but do not remove guard bracket screw
25
until the bracket can be raised far
enough to access the blade screw. Lower guard will remain raised due to the position of the
guard bracket screw.
4. Depress the spindle lock button
35
while carefully rotating the saw blade by hand until the
lock engages.
5. Keeping the button depressed, use the other hand and the 6 mm hex wrench
16
provided
to loosen the blade screw
21
. (Turn clockwise, left-hand threads.)
Fig. D
4
25
16
Fig. E
35
6. Remove the blade screw
21
, outer blade clamp
22
, and blade
23
. The inner blade
clamp
24
may be left on the spindle.
Fig. F
21
22
23
24
Installing a Blade
1. Unplug the saw.
2. With the arm raised, the lower guard held open and the guard bracket raised, place the
blade
23
on the spindle against the inner blade clamp
24
with the teeth at the bottom of
the blade pointing toward the back of the saw.
3. Assemble the outer blade clamp
22
onto the spindle.
4. Install the blade screw
21
and, engaging the spindle lock, tighten the screw firmly with the
6 mm hex wrench provided. (Turn counterclockwise, left-hand threads.)
5. Return the guard bracket to its original position and firmly tighten the guard bracket
screw
25
to hold bracket in place.
WARNING:
•
The guard bracket must be returned to its original position and the screw
tightened before activating the saw.
•
Failure to do so may allow the guard to contact the spinning saw blade resulting
in damage to the saw and severe personal injury.
Miter Scale Adjustment (Fig. A, G)
Place a square against the saw’s fence and blade. (Do not touch the tips of the blade teeth with
the square. To do so will cause an inaccurate measurement.) Unlock miter lock knob
5
and
swing the miter arm until the miter detent locks it at the 0˚ miter position. Do not lock miter lock
knob. If the saw blade is not exactly perpendicular to the base fence
18
, loosen the three miter
scale screws
8
that hold the miter scale
7
to the base and move the scale/miter arm assembly
left or right until the blade is perpendicular to the fence, as measured with the square. Retighten
the three screws. Pay no attention to the reading of the miter pointer at this point.
Fig. G
7
5
Miter Pointer Adjustment (Fig. A, H)
Unlock miter lock knob
5
and squeeze the miter detent latch
6
to move the miter arm to
the zero position. Unlock the miter lock knob to allow the miter detent to snap into place as
you rotate the miter arm toward zero. Observe the pointer
37
and miter scale
7
through the
viewing opening shown in Figure H. If the pointer does not indicate exactly zero, loosen the
pointer screw, adjust the pointer to 0˚ and retighten.
