dewalt circular saw riving knife

[ijakk]

Hi all I've just recently bought a dewalt 18v cordless circular saw, only thing is i noticed that the riving knife doesn't line up exactly with the saw blade and I always thought they were supposed too. It's only out by a couple of mm so I can probably bend it to a little to line up but I don't want to do that unless its not meant to be that way, any advice??

Cheers

Rich

 

[big-all]

should always line up if it dosnt it can cause the blade to cut the wood on the down stroke

if your using a batton or fence can also cause binding as the riving knife gets forced into the mismached slot

both can labour the motor and cause poor performance

 

[ijakk]

thanks mate i'll give it a little tweak