Witch way does it go

putter · Post by **putter** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:00 pm

Morning all, my question to you is. I can’t get the riving knife centered on the on saw blade. I have adjusted the stop screw 514410 with no help. I turned the spindle knob 518204 around having the small end towards the headstock that works. The riving knife is centered, but that is not the way the spindle knob was turned when I received my Mark 7. So witch way does it go, small in towards the headstock or saw blade?

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:37 pm

I don't think it makes a difference but which riving knife are we discussing? There is one that comes as part of the upper saw guard and there is a separate one that is used without the upper saw guard. It being intended for non-thru cuts.

They both get inserted into the lower saw guard and secured there using the guard lock knob.

Both get adjusted by loosening the socket head screw (#215) and moving the lower saw guard left or right on the shaft to get proper position and then locking in place by tightening the socket head screw.

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:22 pm

putter wrote:Morning all, my question to you is. I can’t get the riving knife centered on the on saw blade. I have adjusted the stop screw 514410 with no help. I turned the spindle knob 518204 around having the small end towards the headstock that works. The riving knife is centered, but that is not the way the spindle knob was turned when I received my Mark 7. So witch way does it go, small in towards the headstock or saw blade?

Fascinating. Do you have some documentation that calls a 518204 a "spindle knob"? Is there a picture accompanying the reference?

reible · Post by **reible** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:34 pm

I'm going to take a guess that we are talking about the current 505/510/520 mark 7 ish systems. In case the reference is to an older system then this is not going to be the way to do it. Give us a yell back if that is the case.

This is taken from that shopsmith manual.

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Ed

putter · Post by **putter** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:18 pm

Yes page B-7 of the Parts List and Exploded View of the Mark 7, reference No. 66. It is the gnarled silverfish thing that an arbor butts up too.