Blade Guides - Grizzly G0514 Owner's Manual

Blade Guides

personal injury or death
can occur if the bandsaw
starts during blade guide
adjustments. Disconnect
power from the bandsaw
before performing blade
guide adjustments.
once the blade is tracking correctly, the upper and
lower blade guides need to be adjusted.
To adjust the upper blade guide:
1.
disConneCt BandsaW FroM poWer!
2. loosen cap screw #1 shown in figure 25
and slide the support bearing away from the
blade.
support Bearing
Cap screw #1
figure 25. Back of upper blade guide.
3. loosen the thumb screws shown in figure
26 and slide the guide bearings away from
the blade.
4. loosen cap screw #2 shown in figure 25
and adjust the guide block assembly until the
front edge of the guide bearings are aligned
⁄ " behind the gullet line as shown in figure
1
16
27. retighten cap screw #2.
-24-
guide Block
assembly
Cap screw #2
guide Bearings
thumb screws
figure 26. Front of upper blade guide.
⁄ " gap
1
16
gullet line
figure 27. Correct guide bearing alignment
against the blade.
5.
slide the guide bearings against the side of
the blade. Make sure the front edge of the
bearings are still behind the gullet line. the
gap between the face of each guide bear-
ing and the side of the blade needs to be
the same as the thickness of a dollar bill or
approximately 0.004" as shown in figure 28.
tighten the thumb screws once the guide
bearings are correctly set.
Model g0513/g0514 (Mfg. 8/02+)
(not to scale)
guide Bearing
Blade