 What the heck is the method for changing the blade on a DW-715 miter saw? Ola Woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, a small workshop guy. Every miter saw might be slightly different, but very similar So if you see this for this one, it will probably translate to your miter saw as well A lot of you may not have read the operators manual And or if you did it was a long time ago and this is the first time you've changed your blade And now you've misplaced your manual and you don't want to go in the house and get on the computer and Try to download a manual you just want to get your blade changed So you realize hey, I wonder if the old coot the old small workshop guy might have done a Quick what the heck is video on this subject and here it is In order to change the blade here is the first step Release your miter saw so that it will be in the up position That would give you the ability to reach things more easily Find your tool. Hopefully you haven't lost it that came with your miter saw In this case, there's a little storage place on it. So I won't Misplace it. Otherwise if you have misplaced it then find one that will work Find the tools that will work for this Bolts that you're going to see here now Raise the guard So you can get access to This bolt right here this bolt get kind of have this This guard here, and then you have another set of metal with a bolt in it, and then you have another guard So in between the two guards is this This bolt will and excuse my hands when I loosen things I'll get them out of the way here in a second, but this will go the normal counterclockwise and You want to loosen that but not take it out. You want to loosen it quite a ways and Then the guard will rest on there Now what we want to do is move this piece of metal here that goes around that bolt back toward The so it's out of the way. What we have is the problem of reaching this nut or this bolt excuse me this bolt that holds the saw blade in place So we're trying to get access to that So I need this to go back There we go, so you can see how That moved back and now it's off of that bolt and that has given me access This will turn on you and if there's always a blade lock on The back side or somewhere on your saw This one is back here on the main unit. So I rotate it until I fill that lock into place Now which way are you going to loosen this bolt and this is probably the one thing you may not know as a beginner That is critical is on these miter saws most of them I think all of them probably based on the way the blade turns They've designed it to have a reverse thread So where you would normally go counterclockwise to loosen it in this situation You go clockwise assuming it you have enough hand strength and you've got it locked in place you want to go counter Clockwise normally that would be to tighten but in this case It will loosen All right, give it a nice jig there and you've got that loose and then continue to go counterclockwise Now if you don't know that and you're trying to go I'm sorry. We're going clockwise not counterclockwise. Let me take that back. So in this case to loosen that we go clockwise It's a reverse screw Normally you would go counterclockwise to loosen it and if you're going counterclockwise You're tightening and you're going to make it harder and harder on yourself to get this off and you're going to get very frustrated So we're going clockwise to remove this bolt We're going to remove it completely put it somewhere where you don't lose it take the arbor nut off and Remove your blade Get the new blade you want to put on and get it back in here and over that arbor It's always would be useful to have more hands I'm holding again. I'm locking it in the back This has got a triangular not triangular a rectangular sort of a design on it that fits on the rectangular Arbor Get that on there Now which way to tighten it? Well opposite of what you might think You're going to tighten it by going counterclockwise And that's probably the one thing to learn as a rookie regarding your miter saws So not all tools Do you use the lefty-tighty rule in this case? We are tightening it by going to the right So got that on there securely Next we just need to drop this this guide back down So I want to pull that piece that metal piece And I might have to fool around to get a hold of it with a pair of pliers or something And it looks like it's going to make me do that Well, there we go I bring that down over that bolt Tighten that bolt back up. Which way do we tighten this bolt? Well, this is a traditional Normal screw so we tighten it by going clockwise We tighten the reverse tread arbor nut By going counterclockwise We can we tighten this one back up by going the traditional way, which is clockwise Got that nice and secure and there we have it We've changed our blade Let's go down and test that the all of the guards are working properly and voila We have changed our blade on the DeWalt DWS-715 Small workshop guy, hoping you'll join our Facebook group called Small workshop woodworking community So do a search on Facebook for small workshop woodworking community And you don't have to have a small workshop You don't have to have any kind of a workshop. 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