DeWalt DWS715 - Changing or Installing a New Saw Blade; Removing the Blade; Installing a Blade; Miter Scale Adjustment

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ENGLISH
Changing or Installing a New Saw Blade (Fig. A, C–E)
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WARNING: To reduce the risk of serious personal injury, turn off the tool and
disconnect it from the power source before attempting to move it, change
accessories or make anyadjustments.
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CAUTION:
• Never depress the spindle lock button while the blade is under power orcoasting.
• Do not cut ferrous metal (containing iron or steel) or masonry or fiber cement product
with this mitersaw.
Removing the Blade
1. Unplug thesaw.
2. Raise the arm to the upper position and raise the lower guard
4
as far aspossible.
3. Loosen, but do not remove guard bracket screw
36
until the bracket can be raised far
enough to access the blade screw
23
. Lower guard will remain raised due to the position of
the guard bracketscrew.
4. Depress the spindle lock button
24
while carefully rotating the saw blade by hand until the
lockengages.
5. Keeping the button depressed, use the other hand and the 6mm hex wrench provided
16
to loosen the blade screw. (Turn clockwise, left-hand threads.)
Fig. C
36
23
16
Fig. D
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6. Remove the blade screw
23
, outer blade clamp
25
, and blade
26
. The inner blade
clamp
27
, and if used, the 1" (25.4 mm) blade adapter, may be left on thespindle.
NOTE: For blades with a blade hole of 5/8" (15.88 mm), the 1" (25.4 mm) blade adapter is
notused.
Fig. E
23
25
26
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Installing a Blade
1. Unplug thesaw.
2. With the arm raised, the lower guard held open and the guard bracket raised, place the blade
on the spindle, onto the blade adapter [if using a blade with a 1" (25.4 mm) diameter blade
hole] and against the inner blade clamp with the teeth at the bottom of the blade pointing
toward the back of thesaw.
3. Assemble the outer blade clamp onto thespindle.
4. Install the blade screw
23
and, engaging the spindle lock, tighten the screw firmly with the
6mm hex wrench provided. (Turn counterclockwise, left-hand threads.)
NOTE: When using blades with a 5/8" (15.88 mm) diameter blade hole, the blade adapter will
not be used and should be stored in a safe place for futureuse.
5. Return the guard bracket to its original position and firmly tighten the guard bracket
screw
36
to hold bracket inplace.
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WARNING:
• The guard bracket must be returned to its original position and the screw
tightened before activating thesaw.
• Failure to do so may allow the guard to contact the spinning saw blade resulting
in damage to the saw and severe personalinjury.
Miter Scale Adjustment (Fig. F)
Place a square against the saw’s fence and blade. (Do not touch the tips of the blade teeth with
the square. To do so will cause an inaccurate measurement.) Unlock miter lock knob
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and
swing the miter arm until the miter detent latch locks it at the 0˚ miter position. Do not lock
miter lock knob. If the saw blade is not exactly perpendicular to the base fence
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, loosen the
three miter scale screws
8
that hold the miter scale
7
to the base and move the scale/miter arm
assembly left or right until the blade is perpendicular to the fence, as measured with the square.
Retighten the three screws. Pay no attention to the reading of the miter pointer at thispoint.
Fig. F
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Miter Pointer Adjustment (Fig. A, F, G)
Unlock miter lock knob
5
and squeeze the miter detent latch
6
to move the miter arm to the
zero position. Unlock the miter lock knob to allow the miter detent latch to snap into place as
you rotate the miter arm toward zero. Observe the pointer
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and miter scale
7
through the
viewing opening shown in FigureG. If the pointer does not indicate exactly zero, loosen the
pointer screw, adjust the pointer to 0˚ andretighten.
Fig. G
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Bevel Square to Table (Fig. A, H)
To align the blade square to the rotary table, lock the arm in the down position. Place a square
against the blade taking care to not have the square on top of a tooth. Loosen the bevel lock
knob
5
and ensure the arm is firmly against the 0° bevel stop. Move the 0° bevel stop adjusting
screw
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as necessary so that the blade is at 0° bevel to the table. Ensure the bevel override
levers are pushed inward to obtain an accurateadjustment.