Challenge CHAMPION 305 Instructions And Parts Manual page 25

5. Place your fingers along the top edge of the scabbard and your thumbs in the holes in the
knife.
6. Pull the knife up in its scabbard until the bevel is exposed.
7. Place the lifter on top of the knife and insert the knife lifter handles into the corresponding
knife bolt holes (use the lowest holes) and thread the handles into the knife until they touch
the scabbard. Then back the handles off 1/2 turn.
8. Grasp the knife lifter handles, lift the blade, and insert the blade into the knife bar slot. Slowly
guide the blade into the cutter right end first, then bring the left end in parallel to the knife bar.
Raise the knife into the knife bar slot as high as it will go. Tighten the handles firmly to hold
the knife. An installed lifter is shown in Figure 17 below.
NOTE: If the blade will not go in, either the handles are screwed into the blade too far or the
blade is not centered over the table, and the end of the blade is hitting the end stop in the knife
bar.
9. Insert the rest of the knife bolts and washers, snug tighten them, but don't tighten completely.
Be sure all bolts have washers. The correct washers are important for proper bolt
clearances!
10. Remove the knife lifter and insert the remaining two bolts and washers and snug tighten.
11. Place paper across the table to cover the cutting stick.
12. Turn the power ON, lock the knife down (repeat step 1).
13. DISCONNECT THE POWER AND LOCK IT OUT, (See Power Lockout Procedure on pg. 6).
14. Turn the knife adjusters down, a little at a time (Figure 18), until the blade cuts through the
paper evenly, the length of the stick. Be sure the blade is parallel to the cutting stick, or one
end may cut deeper than the other, causing uneven wear on the stick.
Figure 17
Wrench
Figure 18
8.0 Knife Installation/Changing
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