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Mounting Wire Cup Brushes and
WireWheels (Fig.A)
WARNING: Failure to properly seat the brush/wheel
could result in serious injury (or damage to the tool
orwheel).
CAUTION: To reduce the risk of personal injury,
wear work gloves when handling wire brushes
and wheels. They can becomesharp.
CAUTION: To reduce the risk of damage to the
tool, wheel or brush must not touch guard when
mounted or while in use. Undetectable damage
could occur to the accessory, causing wires to fragment
from accessory wheel orcup.
Wire cup brushes or wire wheels install directly on the
threaded spindle without the use of flanges. Use only wire
brushes or wheels provided with a threaded hub. These
accessories are available at extra cost from your local dealer
or authorised servicecenter.
Mounting and Removing Hubbed
Wheels (Fig. A)
Hubbed wheels install directly on the spindle. Thread of
accessory must match thread ofspindle.
1. Remove backing flange by pulling away fromtool.
2. Thread the wheel on the spindle
4
byhand.
3. Depress the spindle lock button
3
and use a wrench to
tighten the hub of thewheel.
4. Reverse the above procedure to remove thewheel.
NOTICE: Failure to properly seat the wheel before
turning the tool on may result in damage to the tool or
thewheel.
Mounting Sanding Backing Pads (Fig.A, H)
NOTE: Use of a guard with sanding discs that use backing
pads, often called fiber resin discs, is not required. Since a
guard is not required for these accessories, the guard may or
may not fit correctly ifused.
WARNING: Failure to properly seat the clamp nut and/
or pad could result in serious injury (or damage to the
tool orwheel).
WARNING: Proper guard must be reinstalled for
grinding wheel, cutting wheel, sanding flap disc,
wire brush or wire wheel applications after sanding
applications arecomplete.
1. Place or appropriately thread backing pad
18
on
thespindle.
2. Place the sanding disc
19
on the backingpad.
3. While depressing spindle lock button
3
, thread the
sanding clamp nut
20
on spindle, piloting the raised
hub on the clamp nut into the center of san ding disc and
backingpad.
4. Tighten the clamp nut by hand. Then depress the spindle
lock button while turning the sanding disc until the
sanding disc and clamp nut aresnug.
5. To remove the wheel, grasp and turn the backing
pad and sanding pad while depressing the spindle
lockbutton.
Flanges and Wheels
WARNING: To reduce the risk of serious personal
injury, turn unit off and remove the battery pack
before making any adjustments or removing/
installing attachments or accessories. An
accidental start‑up can causeinjury.
Mounting Non-Hubbed Wheels
(Fig. A, G)
WARNING: Failure to properly seat the flanges and/or
wheel could result in serious injury (or damage to the
tool orwheel).
CAUTION: Included flanges must be used with
depressed center Type 27/42 grinding wheels and
Type1/41 cutting wheels. See the Accessories Chart
for moreinformation.
WARNING: A closed, two‑sided cutting wheel guard
is required when using abrasive cutting wheels or
diamond coated cutting wheels.
WARNING: Use of a damaged flange or guard or
failure to use proper flange and guard can re sult in
injury due to wheel breakage and wheel contact. See
the Accessories Chart for moreinformation.
Depressed center Type 27 grinding wheels must be used
with included flanges.
1. Place the tool on a table, guardup.
2. Install the backing flange
6
on spindle
4
with the raised
center (pilot) facing thewheel. Press the backing flange
intoplace.
3. Place wheel
21
against the backing flange, centering the
wheel on the raised center (pilot) of the backingflange.
4. While depressing the spindle lock button and with the
hex depressions facing away from the wheel, thread the
locking flange
7
on spindle so that the lugs engage the
two slots in thespindle.
5. While depressing the spindle lock button, tighten the
locking flange
7
by hand or using the wrench supplied.
(Only use a locking flange if it is in perfect condition.)
Refer to Accessory Chart to see flangedetails.
6. To remove the wheel, reverse the aboveprocedure.
3. Push the guard down until the guard lugs engage and
rotate them in the groove on the gear case cover. Release
the guard releaselever.
4. To position the guard, rotate the guard clockwise into
the desired working position. Press and hold the guard
release lever
9
to rotate the guard in the counter-
clockwisedirection.
NOTE: The guard body should be positioned between
the spindle and the operator to provide maximum
operatorprotection.
The guard release lever should snap into one of the
alignment holes
14
on the guard collar. This ensures that
the guard issecure.
5. To remove the guard, follow steps 1–3 of these
instructions inreverse.