RIDGID MS1065LZ - Manual (Page 17)

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ADJUSTMENTS
SQUARING THE BLADE TO THE MITER TABLE
See Figures 18 - 20.
Unplug your saw.
WARNING:
Failure to unplug your saw could result in acciden-
tal starting causing possible serious personal in-
jury.
Pull the saw arm all the way down and engage the lock
pin to hold the saw arm in transport position.
Loosen the miter lock handle approximately one-half
turn.
Depress the miter lock plate and rotate the miter table
until the pointer on the control arm is positioned at 0
° .
Release the miter lock plate and securely tighten the
miter lock handle.
Loosen bevel lock knob and set saw arm at 0 ° bevel
(blade set 90 ° to miter table). Tighten bevel lock knob.
Place a combination square against the miter table and
the flat part of saw blade.
Note: Make sure that the square contacts the flat part of
the saw blade, not the blade teeth.
Rotate the blade by hand and check the blade-to-table
alignment at several points.
The edge of the square and the saw blade should be
parallel as shown in figure 18.
If the top or bottom of the saw blade angles away from
the square as shown in figures 19 and 20, adjustments
are needed.
Loosen the lock nut securing positive stop adjustment
screw. Also loosen bevel lock knob.
Adjust positive stop adjustment screw to bring
saw blade into alignment with the square.
See Figure 21.
Retighten bevel lock knob. Next, retighten lock nut se-
curing the positive stop adjustment screw. Recheck blade-
to-table alignment.
Note: The above procedure can be used to check blade
squareness of the saw blade to the miter table at both 0
°
and 45 ° angles.
Your saw has several scale indicators. After squaring
adjustments have been made, it may be necessary to loosen
the indicators screws and reset them to zero.
See Figure 17.
MITER
LOCK PLATE
MITER
FENCE
MITER
TABLE
MITER
LOCK
HANDLE
COMBINATION
SQUARE
BLADE
CORRECT VIEW OF BLADE
SQUARE WITH MITER TABLE
VIEW OF BLADE NOT SQUARE WITH MITER
TABLE, ADJUSTMENTS ARE REQUIRED
Fig. 20
VIEW OF BLADE NOT SQUARE WITH MITER
TABLE, ADJUSTMENTS ARE REQUIRED
BEVEL
LOCK KNOB
COMBINATION
SQUARE
COMBINATION
SQUARE
Fig. 19
Fig. 18