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Vertical Panel Saw Installation Guidelines

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Vertical Panel Saw Series Your new BALA vertical panel saw is shipped as two components lagged and strapped to a wooden skid. The saw carriage assembly has been separated from the machine table for shipping purposes. Carefully check the shipment for any damage and make the appropriate notation on the shipping bill of lading as necessary. If damage is found immediately notify the shipping company for inspection and claim. 1. Move machine to the location where it will be installed. Remove lag bolts and straps from skid. Use the following lift points for the machine frame. Lift and move the machine with a fork truck or crane. It is recommended that you use shackles (which can be purchased at a local hardware store; also called U-bolts) to connect to the lifting points if your straps are too thick to bring through the loops at the back lifting points.

U-bolt/shackles on left center lift point at the back of the machine:

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Use fork truck or crane to lift with secure straps and shackles:

Lift points at the back/center of machine:

Set machine in place of installation:

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2. Remove all protective wrapping from the machine.

3. Remove plastic protective wrap from along the top of the machine.

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4. Some of the machine feet will be touching the floor while others are not. Eliminate the excess space underneath the raised feet by making adjustments to them. Far right machine foot – touches the floor and Far left machine foot is raised:

5. Adjust front bolts of raised feet, as well as bolts on the back ends of the feet behind the machine. Do this for all raised feet. Adjustments to front of raised foot and Adjustments to back of raised foot:

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6. Level machine base after end feet have been adjusted to the floor. Level machine on both sides of center.

7. Adjust the middle feet to the floor, removing any space.

8. Once machine is level, anchor all feet to the floor. Anchor both the front and back of each foot.

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9. The Gantry Stops are placed this way on the top of the machine (each end) for the sake of shipment.

The Stops must be turn/flipped up. Remove the bolts, flip the Stop up and pointing towards the center of the machine, and finally fasten the bolts back into the machine.

Final position:

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10. De-crate and unwrap the Gantry.

Mounting the Gantry to the Machine 11. Using a fork truck or crane, you will need to pick secure strapping and lift points. Observe the following lift points based on fork truck and crane recommendation. 12. Fork truck (for low-ceiling) lift point:

Use a second strap secured to the boom of the fork truck as a safety strap so the strapping cannot slide off the end of the forks. Also recommended: have two spotters stand at each side of gantry to make sure the gantry comes up evenly when lifting it with the fork truck.

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13. Crane method lift point (and/or for those with enough ceiling height to lift with a fork truck). Lift point is at the top end of the gantry as shown (right). Above the motor/carriage, but below the top portion of the gantry that sets along the top channel of the machine. Choke the strap as shown. Top portion of gantry

Strap point

Carriage/motor

14. Before lifting, make sure the straps are secured tightly to the forks of the fork truck (or the crane). Move the gantry/crate on the floor level as close to the machine base as possible. (No lifting has been done yet.)

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15. Involve two other personnel as spotters. Spotters hold the securing straps and spot the gantry as it may pivot and turn upon being lifted up.

16. Gradually lift the gantry to the height of the front of the machine.

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17. Place the gantry on top of the chassis’ linear guide way/upper rail. Line up the bearings on the top of the gantry with the upper rail. Bearings

Upper rail

18. When both bearings are aligned with the rail, carefully and gently set down the gantry on the machine. You may need two personnel on either side of the gantry to watch and help guide its landing. Make sure the bearings stay in line so they lay on either side of the upper rail as it is mounted.

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Bearings to set on either side of upper rail.

20. Once gantry has been fully mounted, remove the straps. Lifting strap:

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21. Remove the two counterweight bolts on right and left side of gantry. You will find these approximately 60 cm up from ground level. The saw carriage is now ready to move up and down. Save these bolts for future use. If you are going to move your panel saw to a new location in the future, first you need to install the counter weight stabilizing bolts before removing the gantry from the machine base. When reinstalling your machine: Always place the gantry on top of machine base first before removing the counterweight bolts. Left-side bolt

Location of both bolts

22. Turn the carriage brake (lever) counterclockwise to release the carriage. Check for smooth carriage travel. Always re-lock (turn clockwise) the carriage brake when finished.

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23. Remove the triangular plate with two wheels from electrical box on the back of the machine. Place the two wheels in the aluminum channel on the top of the machine to the left of the saw carriage gantry. Bolt to the bracket of the arm on the underside of the gantry. Bolt here behind gantry Wheels sit in aluminum channel

Back of the Machine 24. Locate the electrical junction box. Remove the two mounting bolts on the backside of the top portion of the gantry. Remove the cover of the electrical junction box. Mount the box to the machine (back of gantry) and tighten the two bolts inside the box, securing the whole box to the back of the gantry. Top, back portion of gantry

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25. Disconnect the ties which secured the black dust hose and blue air lines to the back of the machine for shipment. (Only VSA models will have the blue air lines.) 26. Bring all hose/wires up to the top of the gantry. Keep the hose and wiring on the outside of all leg supports for the machine; they will need to be able to travel the length of the machine with the gantry and not get caught or snagged on the legs. 27. Connect the back hose at top of gantry to dust collection transition. TIP: You may need to loosen the hose clamp. The hose goes inside the lip of the dust collection transition (from the front of the machine). You may need a second set of hands to hold the hose as you work it into the dust collection transition. Tighten hose clamp when done.

28. Exclusively for the composite models: connect the blue air lines to the quickconnect air fittings (see right). There are two connectors on the back of the gantry for hook up.

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29. In the electrical box, connect electrical wiring through the strain relief connector into the terminal box (wiring is fed through holes on the bottom of the box.) They are each labeled numerically. Connect each to its corresponding connector. (Connect identical numbers.) 30. Remove wrapping of the dust collection bag. (Located at hip-level below the electrical junction box.)

31. Exclusively for composite models: Air hook up. Hook up location just to the right of the dust collection bag.

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32. For your locally licensed electrician: hook up 3 Phase power to main power panel. The yellow is neutral (ground line). Connect Phase to 3 consecutive slots from the left, and connect neutral to 4th slot.

Wooden (dpme) Models Blade Removal for Rotation Test These next steps will instruct you how to properly remove the scoring assembly and main blade to test for the correct rotation inside the blade case. This test is not safe with the blades on the machine. Remove blades prior to performing this test. Do NOT perform this test with blades on the machine. Correct rotation must be confirmed before running the motor with the blades & safety covers in place. 33. The motor case shows two arrows: the top arrow shows the correct direction of the main blade motor rotation, the bottom arrow shows the direction of the scoring blade. 34. Take off the blade case cover and, remove the saw blades in this following sequence. a) Release the spring at the top of the scoring assembly. b) Remove arbor bolt using an Allen wrench (8 mm). c) Remove scoring assembly. d) Remove the main saw blade.

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35. When you start the motor by pushing the green button, be sure that the arbor is turning in the same direction as the indication arrow. 36. If it is turning in the wrong direction, that means you need to swap 2 of the Phases in the main power panel to correct the direction of the blade motor and arbor. 37. Once the blade motor and arbor are turning in the correct direction, you may shut down the machine and put the main saw blade, scoring assembly, spring, arbor bolt and motor cover on again in designated sequence. 38. For fine tuning, of alignment; put a sheet of plywood/fiberboard on metal wheels and cut it from top at 1 cm horizontally.

39. This time, place the newly cut part on wheels and make sure that it rests on wheels completely. If the panel does not rest on all wheels completely (also on the wheels at the middle part), adjust the middle foot up or down accordingly. Concave or convex alignment problems can be avoided this way.

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40. These steps, followed in sequence, will make your machine ready for operation.

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