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DeWalt Setup I


Vector01

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Well UPS showed up at 6:30 p.m. (finally). Luckily I had a friend over to help unpack it. Got it on the Kitchen table...It's a monster! Made the little Hitachi look like an infant. Nice finish, no knicks or dings. It was definitely a new "in-the-box" saw. Thought I'd take a break from setup and share what I've found so far.

Two of the most common complaints I've read on this saw are 1) blades twisting while installing 2) blades slipping from the holders.

According to the manual it's ready to go...Install the table and a blade. So before I installed the table I loaded a blade according to their directions. The blade set flush against the inner left side of both holders. The blade was definitely was not centered in the blade holders. The blade twisted while I was tightening and it slipped out from the lower holder when I ran it...Hmmm?

No problem...I removed the blade and took a closer look at the blade holders. The blade set screws where not protruding into the blade holders. I removed both the set screw and the blade tightening screw from the upper holder. I checked the contact surfaces on both.

There was a tiny shiny spot in the middle on both screws. The only contact on the blade was being made on the "high spots" on both screws. Simple fix for that...Took my arkansas stone and stoned both contact surfaces flat. Cleaned off the oil from all surfaces (including threads in blade holder). I also noted that removing and cleaning the set screw removed a lot of the loctite from the screw. Since I didn't have any loctite (blue) on hand I used the old teflon tape trick till I picked some up.

Blade alignment/centering...To be continued.

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Happy to help...Unfortunately there's no info in the manual about those issues. If they (DeWalt) had added some basic blade adjustment procedures in the manual it would prevent a lot aggravation for the customer and less calls to technical support.

If you havn't already, check out Rick's scroll saw site. That's where I found most of the fixes.

http://www.scrollsaws.com/

http://www.scrollsaws.com/SawReviews/DewltTuneUp.htm

Parts blow up....

http://www.toolpartsdirect.com/cgi-bin/ ... 788_TYPE_1

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