Adjusting Blade Guides - Grizzly G0555 Owner's Manual

Adjusting
Blade Guides
The blade guides provide side-to-side support
to help keep the blade straight while cutting.
The blade guides are designed to be adjusted in
two ways—forward/backward and side-to-side.
Properly adjusted blade guides are essential to
making accurate cuts.
To adjust the upper and lower blade guides:
1. Make sure that the blade is tracking properly
and that it is correctly tensioned.
2.
DISCONNECT BANDSAW FROM POWER!
3.
Familiarize yourself with the blade guide con-
trols shown in Figure 24.
Cap
Screw
Blade
Guide
Bearings
Figure 24. Blade guide controls.
4.
Loosen the thumbscrew on the forward/back-
ward adjustment rod.
5. Rotate the knurled knob behind the blade
guides to position the blade guides later-
ally, so that the edges of the bearings are
just behind the blade gullets as illustrated in
Figure 25.
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Knurled
Knob
Thumbscrew
Cap
Screw
Blade
Gullets
Figure 25. Lateral adjustment of blade guides.
NOTICE
Make sure that the blade teeth will not con-
tact the guide bearings when the blade is
against the rear support bearing during the
cut.
6.
Tighten the thumbscrew on the lateral adjust-
ment rod so that the knurled knob will not
turn.
7.
Use an Allen wrench to loosen the cap
screws behind the blade guides.
8. With an Allen wrench, rotate the center por-
tion of the blade guides to position the bear-
ings so they make light contact on both sides
of the blade as illustrated in Figure 26.
Figure 26. Blade guide bearings against both
sides of blade.
G0555 14" Ultimate Bandsaw
Blade
Guide
Bearing