Knives
Figure 7
! WARNING
The knives are extremely sharp. Use
caution when handling.
Installation of the Knives
1. To expose the cutterhead, move the fence
all the way back.
2.
Back down both the infeed and outfeed
tables to their lowest position. Be sure to
loosen the lock on the outfeed table
before doing so.
3.
Now turn the cutterhead by hand until one
of the knives is exposed and accessible.
Use gloves or a rag to prevent injury.
4.
Using a 10mm wrench on the knife lock
bolt, release the pressure on the knife by
turning the bolt into the cutterhead as
show in Figure 7. To prevent injury, hold
the wrench with one hand while tapping
the top of the wrench with the other hand
as shown. Do this for all six bolts.
Figure 8
5.
Once all the bolts have been turned in, the
knife should pop up from the spring
pressure. Remove the knife and
immediately place the new knife in the slot
to prevent loss of the springs.
Note
: It is not only important to set the height
of the knife with respect to the cutterhead it is
also important that the outside edge of the
knives be aligned with the rabbeting ledge.
6. With the knife in the slot use a straight
edge on the rabbeting ledge as shown in
Figure 8 to push the knife into alignment
with the edge.
7. Next use the supplied knife guage as
shown to carefully push down on the knife
until it is position as shown in Figure 9.
Make sure the knife makes contact within
the indent as shown by ‘A’ in Figure 9.
8. With the knife held firmly into place back
the knife lock bolts out into the cutterhead
in order to put pressure onto the knife.
Work from the center bolts outward. Do
this in two steps. First loosely, then firmly
the second time.
9. Repeat the above for all knives.
Note
: The supplied guage sets the knives to
the cutterhead however it is always best to set
the knives to the outfeed table. Many
aftermarket devices are available to do this
.
If
using this method the knife should be no more
than 1/8” out of the cutterhead (not including
the bevel)
Figure 9
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