MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS
10
BLADE REPLACEMENT
WARNING
: To avoid serious personal
injury, be sure the unit is off and unplugged
before cleaning or performing any
maintenance on it.
WARNING:
When servicing, use only
identical Ryobi replacement parts. Use of
any other parts may create a hazard or cause
product damage.
WARNING:
To prevent serious personal
injury, wear gloves when handling, removing
or installing the cutting blades. When
handling blade assembly, do not place your
hand or fingers between blades or in any
position where they could get pinched or cut.
Disconnect hedge trimmer from power supply.
1. Remove blade cover screw (Fig. 10).
2. Remove blade cover: To remove, push blade cover
forward and lift from hedge trimmer.
3. Remove blade screws (Fig. 11).
NOTE:
A flat blade or # T20 Torx bit screwdriver. is
required to remove blade screws.
4. Remove grease cover and blade assembly.
5. Make sure drive washer remains installed on drive
pin (Fig. 11).
6. Align slot in new blade assembly and grease cover
with drive washer on gear assembly (Fig. 12).
7. After aligning, continue to hold blade assembly in
place, then manually slide blade assembly back and
forth until screw holes in grease cover align with
screw holes in gear housing (Fig. 13).
WARNING:
Blades are sharp. When
manually sliding blade assembly, do not
place your hand or fingers between blades
or in any position where they could get
pinched or cut.
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Drive Washer
Blade Screws
