Craftsman professional 152.217050 Manual De Instrucciones página 23

KNIFE REMOVAL KNIFE REPLACEMENT
CAUTION: To avoid cutting yourself, be very careful
when removing, replacing and resetting knives,
Fig. 19-1
1/16" of Knife Protrusion from Cutterhead
I_ 1/16"
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B
B
B
A
B
C
Knives (A), Knife-Locking Bars (B),
and Knife-Locking Screws (C) must be
assembled paraHe_ to the face (B) of the
cutterhead groove.
To avoid serious injury, disconnect jointer/planer from
power source.
CAUTION: The knife edges are sharp. Do not touch or
you may be cut.
1. Lower infeed table and remove cutterhead guard.
2. To relieve stress in the cutterhead, slightly loosen
knife-locking screws in the three knife-locking bars.
3. Further loosen knife-locking screws in knife-locking
bar and remove knife-locking bar and knife. Repeat
for the other two locking bars and knives.
A
To avoid serious injury, disconnect jointer/planer from
power source.
CAUTION: The knife edges are sharp. Do not touch or
you may be cut.
1. Make sure the cutterhead (A), knife adjustment
jack screws (C), knife-locking bars (F), and knives
(D) are clean and free of any gum or pitch.
See Figure 20ol.
2. Replace knife adjustment jack screws into one
cutterhead groove.
3. Replace knife-locking bar into same cutterhead
groove.
4. CAUTION: To avoid cutting yourself, take care
when handling knives. The knives are very sharp.
Replace new or re-sharpened knife in cutterhead.
NOTE: SEE FIGURE !9-1 FOR CORRECTLY
INSTALLED POSITION OF KNIFE AND LOCKING
BAR.
5. Slightly snug knife locking bar screws (E).
See Figure 20ol.
6. Repeat steps for installing the other two knives.
7. After the three knives are installed and knife locking
screws are slightly snug, adjust height of knives.
See KNIFE ADJUSTMENTS section for correct
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9.
10.
Knives are adjusted properly when the edge of the
knife extends out 1/16" from the cutterhead.
When all knives are properly adjusted, tighten the
knife-locking bar screws, tightening from the inside
to the outside.
Check that the outfeed table is perfectly level with
the knives at their highpoint, if adjustments are
required, see OUTFEED TABLE OPERATION,
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