I swear I tried that same thing, but the guard didn't act like it would
slide. There was a backet holding the guard onto the housing. Maybe some
trick to lowering the guard and then sliding back. From the design it
looks like something like that was intended.

I don't want to ruin this chopmaster blade so I'm taking it off when I
don't know what I'm going to be cutting.

Blue wrote:
Don't know about the DW but on my Bosch I have to loosen the bolts for the
guard and move the guard to the rear to access the arbor nut. It is a PITA
but then I don't remove/change the blade very often unless I am doing a lot
of cutting on something that builds up a lot of pitch.

"Thomas Mitchell" wrote in message
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Chopmaster blade arrived (see other post for my opinion). Wanted to try
it. Murphy stole the manual. Couldn't find the manual on the dewalt
website to download.

Does anyone know if Dewalt really expects the user to take the blade
shield off the saw when they want to change the blade? That's the only
way I was able to get the bolt out and get the blade off. Not that it's
a terrible or lengthy process. It just looks like the shield shouldn't
have to be taken off. I'd like to change blades FREQUENTLY to keep the
chopmaster in good condition. At some point removing the shield is going
to start gettting annoying.

Thomas