Craftsman 315.23743 Owner's Manual page 40

ADJUSTMENTS (Con'" ued)
DISCONNECT MITER SAW FROM POWER SUPPLY
BLADE HEEL ADJUSTMENT
The saw blade must be aligned, front to rear, with the
direction of travel of the saw head. This condition is
referred to as Blade Heel. See Fig. 6.
1. Miter arm must be securely locked at 0 ° setting
as described above, (See Blade Centering Adjust-
ment, item 1 and 2.)
2. With the rear edge of the saw blade set in line
with the left fence, hold the blade of your square
firmly against the top front face of the fence.
3, Move the blade of your square to the right until
its end lightly touches the side of the saw blade,
Hold square firmly and push the saw head slow-
ly to the rear allowing the saw blade to pass by
the end of the square until the front edge of saw
blade is in line with the end of the square. Note
any clearance or interference at the front edge
of saw blade, with the end of the square, in order
to determine direction of any saw head adjust,
ment, if the blade has the same clearance to the
square through entire saw head movement, no
adjustment is necessary. Proceed to next adjust-
ment check.
4, Should misalignment have been found, make
adjustments as follows:
5, Move the saw head so that two cap screws (A)
located in the traveler (B) are directly under two
holes (C) in the top of the saw arm (D).
6, With the allen wrench furnished, slightly loosen
both screws, Adjust saw head by lightly tapping
front or rear of the motor housing in the direction
needed to align the saw blade.
7. Repeat checking procedure as described in 2 and
3 alternating with adjustment described in 6 until
all blade heel is removed. Tighten the two cap
screws (A) securely, NOTE: WHEN TIGHTENING
SCREWS CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN NOT TO
CAUSE HEEL SETTING TO CHANGE. Fina! check
should be made as described in 2 and 3 toassure
that proper setting has been maintained while
tightening screws,
DISCONNECT MITER SAW FROM POWER SUPPLY
FENCE TO BLADE ADJUSTMENT
To assure proper 45 ° miter and 90 ° cross cuts it is
necessary to maintain the proper fence to blade sut-
ting,
1. With the miter arm locked in the0 ° setting as pre-
viously described (see Blade Centering Adjust-
ment, page 7, items 1 and 2) place square against
left fence and blade as shown in Fig. 7.
2. if fence checks square to blade proceed to next
adjustment check, If setting is improper, make
left fence adjustment as follows:
3. Loosen two screws on rear of left fence,
4. Adjust left fence square with the blade and sec-
urely tighten two screws,
5. Recheck squareness.
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Fig, 6
Fig. 7