If alignment is not right then you need to get the wing bolt out. You need to tilt the blade into a 45-degree angle. The square needs to be between blade’s teeth. Use a square along the side of blade and also it needs to be against splitter. Now for the main part, you need to check if alignment between blade and splitter is correct. Also, you’ll position the guard towards saw’s rear part as well as bring blade to a 90-degree vertical position following same instructions given above. You need to turn the machine off, remove insert and bring blade to its maximum height just as we discussed earlier. Use a folded cardboard piece to do this.įor this process, you will make starting moves similar to how we did it for removing the blade before. Make sure to cover the blade guard teeth when you are installing. Otherwise, there will be binding and twisting. Unlocking To Align the Blade Guard Splitterįor the blade to cut workpieces right, it’s important to get splitter aligned in a right way. Just make sure you don’t detach inner blade flange unless you’ve reassembled the blade. Simply use wrench to pull those towards the machine’s front part.

Now you want to place a wrench for the blade in arbor nut. Stop when the latch seems to lock into its place. Meanwhile, you also need to keep spinning the blade. Then simply pull the motor locking lever. Turn in a clockwise motion the bevel tilting handwheel. The blade’s tilting lock knob is in charge of it.

And here you’ll need the unlocking mechanism to work.

Now you’ll need to adjust the blade and bring it to a 90-degree vertical position. Simply place it close to the table’s back part. This will bring the blade to its maximum height. Simply turn the blade elevation handwheel. Also, you want to disconnect the table saw from power source outlet completely. It should not accidentally start in the middle of your operation. For this first make sure to turn the machine off. You may need to unlock the table saw knob for getting blade out of it. And keeping that in mind, here’s how to perform the unlocking depending on what situation or purpose you are facing. For both regular and job site table saw, you’ll discover yourself into a situation where the unlocking mechanism will become a very important matter to proceed.

Dewalt table saw bevel adjustment