Craftsman 315.212120 Owner's Manual page 13

_, WARNING: To prevent accidental startingthat
could cause possibleserious personal injury,
assemble all parts to your saw before connecting
it to power supply.Saw shouldnever be
connected to power supply when you are
assemblingparts, making adjustments,installing
or removingblades, or when not in use.
As mentioned previouslyyour sew 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 controlarm. Tum clockwiseto
tighten.
TO
LOOSEN
CONTROL MITER
MITER ARM TABLE
LOCKHANDLE Fig. 8
DUST GUIDE
Sea Figure 9.
To installthe dust guide, place the end marked
INSERT over the exhaust port in the upper blade
guard. Tum the guide so that the open end is facing
down or toward the rear of the saw.
TO INSTALL BLADE
See Figures 10, 11, and 12.
WARNING: A 12 in. blade is the maximum
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 willprevent the
blade screwfrom secudng the blade on the
spindle. Either of these situationscould result in
a sedous accidentand can cause serious
personal injury.
• Unplug your sew.
& WARNING: Failure to unplug your saw could
resultin accidental starting causing possible
sedous personal injury.
Push down on the sew arm and pull out the lock
[)in to release saw arm. Raise sew arm to its full
raised position.Be cautious, sew arm is spring
loaded to raise.
• Loosen the phillipsscrew on the blade bolt
cover until blade boltcover can be raised.
See Figure 10.
• Gently raise the lowerblade guard bracket so that
the lower blade guard and blade belt cover can be
rotated up and back to expose the blade belt. See
Figures 10.
LOWER
BLADE GUARD
PHILUPS
SCREW
EXHAUST
PORT
BLADE
BOLT
DUSTGUIDE
ILADE
GUARD BRACKET Fig. 10
Fig. 9
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