Maintenance – RIKON Power Tools 25-010 User Manual

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Maintenance

Replacing Blades

CAUTION! This procedure involves close contact with the

planer blade. Ensure that gloves are worn at all times to pre-

vent injury to the hands.
To remove the planer knives

1. Disconnect the machine from the electricity supply.
2. Remove the jointer fence.
3. Raise the cutterhead guard extrusion and pull it outwards

fully.
4. Turn each of the four screws of the planer knife lockbar

fully inwards.
5. Remove the planer knife lockbar Fig.6.2A and the planer

knife Fig.6.2B from the cutterblock Fig.6.2C.
6. Clean all surfaces of the cutterhead and planer knife lock-

bar.
4.8 Installing the planer knives

1. Place the new planer knife on the planer knife lockbar mak-

ing sure that both pins of the planer knife lockbar fit into the

holes on the planer knife Fig.6.3A.
2. Place the planer knife lockbar Fig.6.3C with the planer

knife Fig.6.3B into the cutterhead, ensuring that the knife

does not slip from the two pins on the planer knife lockbar.
3. Turn the four screws of the planer knife lockbar so far out

that the planer knife lockbar Fig.6.4B and knife Fig.6.4A can

barley be moved longitudinally to the cutterhead axis.

4. There are two ways to check the projection of the knives:
A: By using the setting gauge Fig.6.5 (supplied).
Place the planer knife setting gauge on the cutterblock.

The knives must project so much that they touch the setting

gauge. This check must be performed on both the planer

knives and at both ends of the cutterblock.

Fig.6.2

Fig.6.3

Fig.6.4

Fig.6.5

SETTING GAUGE