Craftsman 152.221240 Owner's Manual page 19

Figure 10-3
D
4. Place the front attachment point (D) of the blade
guard and splitter assembly (H) down into the
tool-less front attachment point (E). Place the rear
attachment 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
assembly on the mounting splitter rod. See figure
10-3.
5. 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 counter-
clockwise. See figure 10-4.
Figure 10-4
L
6. Place 10" saw blade (Z) 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.
H
C
E
Z
M
J
I
K
Figure 10-5
Q
N
F
G
7. Place a square (N) onto the saw table and against
the splitter assembly (O) behind the kickback fin-
gers (P). Make adjustments to the splitter bracket
assembly (Q) so that the splitter is square to the
saw table. Once square, tighten the two hex socket
head screws on the bottom of the splitter bracket
assembly. See figure 10-5.
Figure 10-6
U
8. 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 screw (U) on top of the splitter bracket
assembly. See figure 10-6.
9. Replace table insert and tighten table insert retain-
ing bolt removed in step 1.
10. 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
section of this manual.
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P
T
S
R