Adjusting Rip Fence Guide Bars - RIDGID TS3612 Owner's Manual

Assembly (continued)

Adjusting Rip Fence Guide Bars

WARNING: Front and rear guide
bars must be aligned with blade.
Misaligned guide bars could
twist. Twisted guide bars could
misalign fence. A misaligned
fence could cause binding or
kickback. You could be hit or cut.
Installing Shims
1. From the bag labeled "Guide Bars"
remove the following hardware:
*10 Very thin shim washers.
2. Loosen the 4 nuts holding the rear
guide bar in place.
3. Holding the guide bar against the rear
of saw table and extensions, note if
there is any gap between the table or
extension and the inside face of the
rear guide bar. If no gap exists, finger
tighten nuts. If gap appears, slip shim
washers into gap until space is full.
4. Stack shim washers on table or exten-
sion nearest to bolt that is affected.
5. When all four bolt locations have been
checked, slide guide bar off of bolts and
install stacks of shim washers under
head of appropriate bolt(s).
6. Reinstall rear guide bar and realign the
"mark" on rear guide bar as described
earlier. Finger tighten nuts.
Aligning Rip Fence Guide Bars
1. Position rip fence over right miter gauge
groove. While holding up rear of rip
fence engage front end of rip fence
onto the front guide bar. Now lower rip
fence down onto table.
2. Open owners manual so that 8 pages
are separated from the rest of the book.
Use these pages like a feeler gage to
set the spacing between the bottom of
the fence and the table top.
3. Rip fence should clear saw table/exten-
sion surface just enough to allow pages
to slide back and forth under rip fence.
If rip fence is too high or too low, loosen
nuts holding front guide bar and adjust
Very Thin Shim Washer
Shim
Washers
bar up or down. Wrench tighten nuts
when proper alignment is achieved.
4. Adjust rear guide bar, as noted above.
5. Slide fence left and right on guide bar to
ensure clearance from side to side and
from front to back. If necessary readjust
rip fence guide bars to get proper clear-
ance. Wrench tighten all nuts holding
guide bars in place.
NOTE: During this adjustment, the left/
right positioning of the guide bars could be
affected. Realignment may be necessary.
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Table or
Extension
Rear Guide Bar
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