Hi everyone,
My new machines arrived yesterday, one of which is a SC4E slider. Don't have power to any of them yet, but am familiarizing myself with manuals and usage.
I have watched the following video about changing the blade, and it even looks like a 12" blade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3bBl8ZEdQ
However, with the blade and riving knife fully raised, my slider looks different, and the blade change can't be done that way.
My slider looks like this photo:
scm sc4e Untitled-4.jpg
There is a slot within a piece of metal, that is itself affixed to the slider with several bolts. There's no way you can raise the blade and riving knife to mount/unmount the blade, by placing it on the arbor, and moving it laterally into position.
That means you have to lower the blade quite a bit, but doing so forces you to have to tilt the bottom of the blade in, to avoid interference with the guard. But with a 12" blade, there is still interference, it's very, very tight.
Wondering how SC4E owners have addressed this issue.
Thanks in advance --
Ned