Align Riving Knife To Blade - Craftsman 113.196120 Owner's Manual

Alignment
Align Riving Knife to Blade
The goal of this adjustment is to position the
riving knife directly in line with the blade.
Riving knife alignment is an important safe-
ty factor. The riving knife rides in the kerr of
the cut workpiece during ripping to keep the
two sides of the workpiece from pinching on
the blade. Blade pinching is a cause of kick-
back.
1. Lock yoke in in-rip position (blade
towards colum, motor towards front of
arm).
2. Lower arm until blade just clears table.
3. Unlock rip lock while holding up lower
plastic guard, move yoke back until blade
touches fence. Lock rip lock.
4. Loosen pawls/riving knife knob. Lower
riving knife to the table and tighten knob.
The riving knife should rest fiat against
fence.
5. If adjustment is needed:
i) loosen riving knife bracket screw.
ii) slide riving knife so it rests against
fence.
iii) secure riving knife bracket screw.
6. Raise riving knife and tighten pawlsdriv-
ing knife knob.
Fence
Wrong
Correct
Pawls
Riving Knife
Wrong
Pawls/Rl_ng Knife
Knob
Riving Knife
Screw
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