Craftsman 351.221140 Owner's Manual page 18

Figure 10-3 Figure 10-5
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N
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P
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Place the front attachment point (D) of the blade
guard and splitter assembly (H) down into the tool-
less front attachment point (E) and the rear attach-
ment slot (F) onto the threads of the splitter bracket
knob (G); securely tighten splitter bracket knob.
Note: The splitter bracket assembly will need to be
positioned to fit the blade guard and splitter assem-
bly on the mounting splitter rod. See figure 10-3.
Remove the hex nut (K) and outer flange (J) from
the blade arbor (I). Note: The arbor has a right hand
thread; to loosen the hex nut, turn it counterclock-
wise. See figure 10-4.
Figure 10-4
M H
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Place a square (N) onto the saw table and against
the splitter assembly (O) behind the kickback
fingers (P). Make adjustments to the splitter
bracket assembly (Q) so that the splitter is square
to the saw table and tighten the two hex socket
head screws on the bottom of the splitter bracket
assembly. See figure 10-5.
Figure 10-6
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T
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Place 10" saw blade (H) onto blade arbor (I), make
sure the teeth of the blade are pointing down in the
front of the table saw. Place the outer flange (J)
and hex nut (K) onto the blade arbor and snug hex
nut by hand. Place the open-end blade wrench (L)
on the flats of the inner blade flange (not shown)
and the box-end blade wrench (M) onto the hex nut
and securely tighten. Note: The blade arbor has a
right hand thread, to tighten the hex nut turn it
clockwise. See figure 10-4.
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10.
Lay a straight edge (R) against the left side of the
saw blade (S). Align the splitter (T) so that it is in a
straight line with the blade and tighten the one hex
socket head screws (U) on top of the splitter brack-
et assembly. See figure 10-6.
Replace table insert and tighten table insert
retaining-bolt removed in step 1.
If there is any problem with the front splitter attach-
ment bracket being out-of-square to the saw table
or blade alignment, see "ALIGNING SPLITTER
BRACKET" in the Operations and Adjustments sec-
tion of this manual.
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