Lesson learned on my MM16 BS
Well I guess this proves you're never too old to learn new things and make new mistakes. I've never tilted the table on my MM16 but today I needed a 15 degree cut so I loosended the bolt and tilted the table. It seemed like a struggle moving the table and this should have tipped me off. But nooooo.
Well I'm about half way through with my cut when I hear an abnormal noise and so I shut off the saw. Before I could fully depress the brake I see the blade coming off the wheels and contacting things it's not supposed to contact. BTW this is my Lennox 1" carbide blade. I opened the doors; that is I tried to. The blade had come off and jammed the lower door shut. After working on this for a while I finally got it opened to see the blade had cut off part of the lower door inner lip. Oh well some metal working for me. After trimming the loose metal I saw what had happened to cause this.
I had accidentally hit the lower guide with the table and knocked it way out of alignment. After studying this I realized you have to LOWER THE LOWER GUIDE when you tilt the table so you have the proper clearance. I'm writing this rant so others won't do the same thing. O.K. so maybe I'm the only one to do this and I did feel really dumb when it happend. Me and my Mini Max have recovered for now but I don't know about the blade. Alan in Md.