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Hitachi M12V Question

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Hitachi M12V Question

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Hitachi M12V Question

Ken Krawford

>Several months ago I was having trouble making a plunge cut with a small bit and I had to remove the spring from the depth adjustment rod on my router. Now I get it out months later and can't remeber how the parts go back on the threaded rod. It's not shown on my exploded view in the manual and 30 minutes with Hitachi tech support failed also.

As you can see from the picture, there is a nut, a collar, a spring and a washer. No matter what order I use, it doesn't work right. The depth adjustment knob has been removed in the photo, but I know (or should I say I think I know) it goes on last.

Any help would be appreciated.


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Keith Weber

>Here's a pic. The spring is above the square nut. The square nut turns with the depth adjustment knob.

Keith


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Ken Krawford

>Thanks Keith.

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Re: Hitachi M12V "Tidbit" - No pun intended

Ray Carson, New Jersey

>I was curious when I saw this post and was glad that someone sent a PIC of the correct way to assemble the height adjustment. I was going to post the M12v exploded view from Hitachi's website but was surprised that it wasn't there.

I talked to a customer "rep" and the M12v was discontinued about 6 months ago and was replaced with the M12v2. The new model looks weird. I don't see the point in making a tool look like a work of art. I sure hope the quality is still there.

Anyway, the customer "rep" said she would make sure and tell the powers to be that the manuals for the M12v are put back on the website because according to the company policy, the manuals and exploded parts #'s, pictures, etc. are supposed to remain for 5 years on the companys list. The parts for older model tools are usually in stock for roughly 10 years.

The "rep" said that the M12v can still be found for sale at some stores and places like Amazon.com (aka Tool Crib) and similar online tool sites. No guarentees.

I'd be interested to know if anyone here at WC has the new M12v2 and what they think about it.

My 2 cents worth,

Ray


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Re: M12V for future use 

Ray Carson, New Jersey

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Ellis Walentine

Hi Peter,

Cannot see images on Chrome, Firefox, AVG on Win10box -- only visible in MSEdge
Cannot see images in Chrome or Safari on MacBook v11.6

Ellis

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admin

@Ellis Walentine,

Thanks. Everything is back as it was until I rethink this. If they don't appear now, a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5) should solve it.

I had copied the files to a free hosting server and then redirected the image links to it. That should work, right? It did, except on Chrome-based browsers. Upon researching, I found out that they will not load images from a site not using SSL/TLS from a site that is using it. Huh, who'd a thunk? Learn something new everyday.

Back to the drawing board... :(

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Ellis Walentine wrote:

Hi Peter,

Cannot see images on Chrome, Firefox, AVG on Win10box -- only visible in MSEdge
Cannot see images in Chrome or Safari on MacBook v11.6

Ellis

Don't show in Firefox either

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I thought I posted this last night, but I don't see my post, so maybe I just dreamt it.

I can see all the images using Safari Version 17.2 (19617.1.17.11.9) on a Mac Book running Sonoma 14.2

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