Blade Changes - Grizzly G0514 Owner's Manual

The most common causes of blade breakage
are:
• Faulty alignment and adjustment of the
guides.
• Forcing or twisting a wide blade around a
curve of short radius.
• Feeding the workpiece into the blade too
fast.
• tooth dullness or absence of sufficient set.
• incorrect tension.
• top blade guide assembly set too high above
the workpiece.
• using a blade with a lumpy or improperly fin-
ished braze or weld.
• Continuously running the bandsaw when not
in use.

Blade changes

Always disconnect power
to the machine when
changing blades. failure
to do this may result in
serious personal injury.
All saw blades are dan-
gerous and may cause
personal injury. To reduce
the risk of being injured,
wear leather gloves when
handling saw blades.
To remove a blade:
1.
disConneCt BandsaW FroM poWer!
2. release the blade tension by turning the
blade tension quick release lever to the left.
Model g0513/g0514 (Mfg. since 8/02+)
3.
remove the table insert and the table pin.
adjust the upper and lower guide bearings as
far away as possible from the blade.
4. open the upper and lower wheel covers, and
with gloved hands, slide the blade off of both
wheels.
5.
rotate the blade 90˚ and slide it through the
slot in the table.
To replace a blade:
1.
slide the blade through the table slot, ensur-
ing that the teeth are pointing down toward
the table. Note: If the teeth will not point
downward in any orientation, the blade is
inside-out. Put on heavy gloves, remove the
blade, and twist it right side-out.
2.
slip the blade through the guides, and mount
it on the upper and lower wheels (figure 48),
then tighten the blade tension lever.
figure 48. placing blade on the wheels.
4. apply tension to the blade by turning the ten-
sion control knob. rotate the upper wheel
slowly by hand as tension is applied to allow
the blade to center itself on the wheel. adjust
tracking if needed.
5. adjust tension as described page 23.
6. adjust the upper/lower guide bearings and
the support bearings.
7.
Close the wheel covers, then replace the
table insert and table pin.
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