RIDGID TS3650 - Manual (Page 33)

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Installing Shims
1. Locate the following hardware:
10 Very thin shim washers.
2. Loosen the 4 nuts holding the rear
guide bar in place.
3. Holding the guide bar against the
rear of saw table and extensions,
note if there is any gap between the
table or extension and the inside
face of the rear guide bar. If no gap
exists, finger tighten nuts. If gap
appears, slip shim washers into
gap until space is full.
4. Stack shim washers on table or
extension nearest to bolt that is
affected.
5. When all four bolt locations have
been checked, slide guide bar off of
bolts and install stacks of shim
washers under head of appropriate
bolt(s).
6. Reinstall rear guide bar and realign
the “mark” on rear guide bar as
described earlier. Finger tighten nuts.
Aligning Rip Fence Guide Bars
1. Position rip fence over right miter
gauge groove. While holding up rear
of rip fence engage front end of rip
fence onto the front guide bar. Now
lower rip fence down onto table.
2. Open operators manual so that 8
pages are separated from the rest
of the book. Use these pages like a
feeler gage to set the spacing
between the bottom of the fence
and the table top.
WARNING: Front and rear guide
bars must be aligned with blade.
Misaligned guide bars could twist.
Twisted guide bars could misalign
fence. A misaligned fence could
cause binding or kickback. You
could be hit or cut.
Adjusting Rip Fence Guide Bars
3. Rip fence should clear saw table/
extension surface just enough to
allow pages to slide back and forth
under rip fence. If rip fence is too high
or too low, loosen nuts holding front
guide bar and adjust bar up or down.
Wrench tighten nuts when proper
alignment is achieved.
4. Adjust rear guide bar, as noted above.
5. Slide fence left and right on guide
bar to ensure clearance from side
to side and from front to back. If
necessary readjust rip fence guide
bars to get proper clearance.
Wrench tighten all nuts holding
guide bars in place.
NOTE: During this adjustment, the
left/right positioning of the guide bars
could be affected. Realignment may
be necessary.
8 Pages
Operators Manual
Rear Guide Bar
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