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Fig. D
Flanges and Wheels
Mounting Non-Hubbed Wheels (Fig. E)

WARNING: Failure to properly seat the flange/ clamp
nut/ wheel could result in serious injury (or damage to
the tool or wheel).
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CAUTION: Included flanges must be used with
depressed center Type 27 and Type 42 grinding wheels
and Type41 cutting wheels. See the Accessories
Chart for moreinformation.
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WARNING: A closed, two-sided cutting wheel guard
is re quired when using cutting wheels.
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WARNING: Use of a damaged flange or guard or fail-
ure to use proper flange and guard can re sult in injury
due to wheel breakage and wheel contact. See the
Accessories Chart for moreinformation.
1. Place the tool on a table, guardup.
2. Install the unthreaded backing flange
4
on spindle
2
with the raised center (pilot) facing the wheel.
3. Place wheel against the backing flange, centering the
wheel on the raised center (pilot) of the backingflange.
4. While depressing the spindle lock button and with the
hex depressions facing away from the wheel, thread the
clampnut
5
on spindle so that the lugs engage the
two slots in thespindle.
5. While depressing the spindle lock button, tighten the
locking flange with a wrench
17
.
6. To remove the wheel, depress the spindle lock button
and loosen the threaded locking flange with awrench.
Fig. E
17
5
4
2
Mounting Sanding Backing Pads
(Fig.A,F)
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 ifused.

WARNING: Failure to properly seat the flange/ clamp
nut/ wheel could result in serious injury (or damage to
the tool or wheel).

WARNING: Proper guard must be reinstalled for
grinding wheel, cutting wheel, sanding flap disc,
wire brush or wire wheel applications after sanding
applications arecomplete.
1. Place or appropriately thread backing pad on
thespindle.
2. Place the sanding disc on the backingpad.
3. While depressing spindle lock
1
, thread clamp nut
18
on spindle, piloting the raised hub on the clamp nut
into the center of san ding disc and backingpad.
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 aresnug.
5. To remove the wheel, grasp and turn the backing
pad and sanding pad while depressing the spindle
lockbutton.