Assembly And Adjustments; Installing A Blade; Removing The Blade - DeWalt DWS713 Instruction Manual

Fig. C

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
3. Loosen, but do not remove guard bracket screw
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
to loosen the blade screw 21 . (Turn clockwise, left-hand threads.)
Fig. D
Fig. E
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4 as far as possible.
25 until the bracket can be raised far
16 provided
4
25
16
35
6. Remove the blade screw 21 , outer blade clamp
clamp 24 may be left on the spindle.
Fig. F
22
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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
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 to hold bracket in place.
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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
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
scale screws 8 that hold the miter scale 7
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
Miter Pointer Adjustment (Fig. A, H)
Unlock miter lock knob 5 and squeeze the miter detent latch
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
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.
22 , and blade 23 . The inner blade
23
24
24 with the teeth at the bottom of
5
18 , loosen the three miter
to the base and move the scale/miter arm assembly
7
5
6 to move the miter arm to
37 and miter scale 7 through the
English
and
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