Adjustments - Craftsman 315.212300 Owner's Manual

WARNING:
To prevent accidental starting that
could cause possible serious personal injury,
assemble all parts to your saw before connecting
it to power supply. Saw should never be
connected to power supply when you are
assembling parts, making adjustments, installing
or removing blades, or when not in use.
As mentioned previously your saw has been factory
assembled and adjusted. The miter lock handle, dust
guide, and blade are the only parts that have to be
installed.
MITER LOCK HANDLE
See Figure 8.
To install the miter lock handle, place the threaded
stud on the end of the miter lock handle into the
threaded hole in the control arm. Turn clockwise to
tighten.
TO
LOOSEN
TO
TIGHTEN
CONTROL
ARM
MITER
LOCK HANDLE
DUST GUIDE
See Figure 9.
To install the dust guide, place the end marked
INSERT over the exhaust port in the upper blade
guard. Turn the guide so that the open end is facing
down or toward the rear of the saw.
EXHAUST
PORT
DUST GUIDE

ADJUSTMENTS

TO INSTALL BLADE
See Figures 10, 11, and 12.
WARNING:
blade capacity of your saw. Never use a blade
that is too thick to allow outer blade washer to
engage with the flats on the spindle. Larger
blades will come in contact with the blade
guards, while thicker blades will prevent the
blade screw from securing the blade on the
spindle. Either of these situations could result in
a serious accident and can cause serious
personal injury.
Unplug your saw.
WARNING
result in accidental starting causing possible
serious personal injury.
Push down on the saw arm and pull our the lock
pin to release saw arm. Raise saw arm to its full
raised position. Be cautious, saw arm is spring
loaded to raise.
Loosen the phillips screw on the blade bolt
cover until blade bolt cover can be raised.
See Figure 10 and 11.
Gently raise the lower blade guard bracket,
releasing lower blade guard from notch so that
lower blade guard and blade bolt cover can be
rotated up and back to expose the blade bolt. See
Figures 10 and 11.
MITER
TABLE
Fig. 8
NOTCH
Fig. 9
13
A 10 in. blade is the maximum
: Failure to unplug your saw could
PHILLIPS SCREW
LOWER
BLADE GUARD
LOWER BLADE
GUARD BRACKET
Fig. 10