Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Sam Takoy wrote:
Hi,

I got this planer from a friend (who's never used it).

Here's two picture of a blade lock. It is spring loaded and the
dumbfounding part is that in the default position it is *locked*. One
need to press (and, theoretically, hold) the button down for the lock
to go down to let the blade spin freely.


http://freeboundaries.com/up.jpg (locked, default)
http://freeboundaries.com/down.jpg (unlocked with the button press)

If anyone has this model, what's going on here?

Thanks,

Sam

Dowload the manual for hte newer 1301 and it should explain the way it
works. From the blurry photo, I can't tell what it is
http://www.ryobitools.com/catalog/po...planers/AP1301

That's exactly what I had done. Apparently the 1301 does not have this
feature.