Adjustments; Replacing The Blade - Craftsman 315.228590 Owner's Manual

To avoid unnecessary setups and adjustments, a good practice is to check your setups carefully with a framing
square and make practice cuts in scrap wood before making finish cuts in good workpieces. Do not start any
adjustments until you have checked with a square and made test cuts to be sure adjustments are needed.
REPLACING THE BLADE
See Figures 46, 47, and48.
_1, WARNING: Be sure the switch is off, the switch
key is removed, and your saw is unplugged.
Failure to do so could result in accidental starting
resulting Lnpossible serious personal injury.
• Raise the blade guard and remove the throat plate
by loosening the screw at the front with a phillips
screwdriver and lifting the front of the throat plate.
Pull it out toward the front.
• Raise the blade to its highest position by turning
the height handwheel clockwise. Angle the blade
straLght up by loosening the bevel lock handle
(front of the cabinet) and turning the bevel
handwheel. Wedge a piece of scrap wood against
the front of the blade. See Figure 46.
• Loosen the blade nut with the blade wrench
provided with your saw. Remove the blade nut and
blade washer. Carefully remove the scrap wood
block and blade.
• To replace the blade with an accessory blade, use
the instructions provided with the accessory.
• To install a standard blade, place the new blade on
the arbor shaft, with teeth pointing down toward the
front of the saw. See Figure 47.
• Wedge a block of wood at the back of the blade.
See Figure 48.
CAUTION: The teeth must point down toward
H
the front of the saw to work properly. Otherwise,
damage to the blade, saw, or workpiece can
occur.
• Place blade washer and blade nut over blade arbor.
Be sure the dome side of blade washer faces out
from the blade and that all items are snug against
the arbor housing. Tighten securely.
• Remove wood and rotate the blade by hand to
make sure it turns freely.
• Lower the blade and slip the throat plate into the
opening and push it toward the back of the saw to
engage the spring clip. Securely tighten the screw.
If the throat plate is not flush with the table, adjust
the setscrews with a 2 mm hex key. Do not let the
throat plate bow up above the table surface.
BLADEGUARD
THROATPLATE
REMOVED
BLADEAT HIGHEST
POSITION
TO LOOSENBLADENI
SCRAPWOOD
WEDGEDAT FRONT
NEW BLADE,TEETH
DOWNAT FRONT
SCRAPWOOD
WEDGEDAT BACK
TO TIGHTEN
BLADENUT
Fig. 46
BLADEWASHER,
BLADENUT
BLADE
ARBOR
Fig. 47
Fig. 48
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