Assembly - Ryobi RJC180 Operator's Manual

WARNING:
Always remove battery pack from your saw when you
are assembling parts, making adjustments, assembling
or removing blades, cleaning, or when not in use.
Removing battery pack will prevent accidental starting
that could cause serious personal injury.
TO REMOVE / ATTACH BATTERY PACK
See Figure 2.
TO REMOVE:
Locate latches on side of battery pack and depress both
sides to release battery pack from your saw
Remove battery pack from your saw.
TO ATTACH:
Place the battery pack in your saw aligning raised rib on
battery pack with groove in saw's battery port. See
Figure 2.
Make sure the latches on each side of the battery pack
snap into place and battery pack is secured to saw
before beginning operation.
BATTERY
PACK
TO INSTALL SAW BLADE
See Figure 3.
Remove battery pack. See Figure 2.
WARNING:
Failure to remove battery pack from saw could result in
accidental starting causing possible serious personal
injury.
Remove the 5 mm blade wrench provided with your saw
from wrench holder. Note: Wrench holder is located in
bottom portion of saw handle. See Figure 1.

ASSEMBLY

BATTERY PORT
DEPRESS LATCH
TO RELEASE
BATTERY PACK
LATCH
Fig. 2
Loosen the blade clamp screw enough to permit the saw
blade to be inserted between blade clamp and saw bar.
Note: It is never necessary to remove the blade clamp
screw from the blade clamp when installing or removing
blade.
Align the hole in the shank of the blade and blade clamp
with the pin in the saw bar, then seat both on the pin in
the saw bar.
Tighten blade clamp screw securely.
Remove blade wrench and store it in wrench holder.
Replace battery pack.
BLADE CLAMP
HOLE IN
SAW BLADE
BLADE CLAMP
BLADE
BLADE
CLAMP HOLE
Note: There may be times when the blade clamp sticks to the
saw bar and will not loosen enough to allow blades to be
installed or removed. If this happens, loosen the blade clamp
screw with the blade wrench, then tap lightly on the end of the
blade wrench with a mallet. See Figure 4.
BLADE
CLAMP SCREW
BLADE WRENCH
(5 mm HEX KEY)
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SAW BAR
CLAMP SCREW
PIN
BLADE
CLAMP
SCREW
BLADE WRENCH
(5 mm HEX KEY)
BLADE CLAMP
MALLET
BLADE
Fig. 3
SAW BAR
Fig. 4