Ryobi CW-1801, Operator'S Manual

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7. OPERATION
WARNING:
Always wear safety goggles or safety glasses with side shields when operating tools. Failure to do so could result
in objects being thrown into your eyes, and cause serious eye injury.
WARNING:
Do not allow familiarity with your cordless circular saw to make you careless. Remember that a careless fraction of
a second is sufficient to inflict severe injury.
WARNING:
Always remove the battery pack from your saw when you are assembling parts, making adjustments, attaching or
removing a blade, cleaning, or when you are not using your saw. Removing the battery pack will prevent accidental
starting that could cause serious personal injury.
7.1 TO REMOVE THE BATTERY PACK
• Depress the release button and slide out the battery pack. See Figure 2.
• Remove the battery pack from your saw.
WARNING:
Failure to remove the battery pack from the saw could result in accidental starting causing possible serious personal
injury.
7.2 TO INSTALL THE BATTERY PACK
• Slide-in the battery pack.
• Make sure the latch of your battery pack snaps into place and the battery pack is secured in the saw before beginning
operation.
CAUTION:
When placing the battery pack in your saw, make sure the battery pack snaps properly into place. Improper assembly
of the battery pack can cause damage to internal components.
WARNING:
The maximum diameter of the saw blade is 165 mm. Never use a blade that is too thick to allow the outer blade washer
to engage with the flat on the spindle. Larger blades will touch the blade guard, while thicker blades will prevent the
blade screw from securing the blade on the spindle. Either of these situations could result in a serious accident.
Fig. 2:
A. DEPRESS LATCH TO RELEASE BATTERY PACK
B. LATCH
C. GROOVES
D. BATTERY PACK
7.3 TO ATTACH OR REMOVE THE BLADE
7.3.1 TO ATTACH THE BLADE:
• Remove battery pack from saw.
WARNING:
Failure to remove the battery pack from the saw could result in accidental starting and cause serious personal injury.
• Depress latch on end of battery pack and release it from your saw. See Figure 2.
• Remove blade key (5 mm hex key) from its storage compartment. See Figure 1.
• Depress spindle lock button and remove blade screw and outer blade washer. See Figure 3.
NOTE: Turn blade screw clockwise to remove it.
• Put a drop of oil onto inner blade washer and outer blade washer where they touch the blade.
WARNING:
If the inner blade washer has been removed, put it back in place before placing the blade on the spindle. Failure to
do so could cause an accident since the blade will not tighten properly.
• Fit saw blade inside blade guard and onto spindle.
NOTE: The saw teeth point upwards at the front of saw as shown in Figure 3.
• Put outer blade washer back in place.
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