Ridgid Table Saw Riving Knife

A saw with a true riving knife as i understand it has basic design differences that make it almost impossible to add a riving knife. The riving knife on a table saw is a vital piece of safety equipment for the tool. Sorry not to address your question but i have a rigid table saw just bot.
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I had to use a hammer at times to loosen or get it to close.

Ridgid table saw riving knife. It is impractical to adapt to a riving knife to a saw that was manufactured without one. Adding a riving knife to a 3650 one big difference is that the riving knife moves with the blade so the gap between the blade and the knife is always the same. The riving knife lever was to tight to adjust up and down. I used a 14 ratchet with a 12 inch socket to loosen the bolt spring.

Sort of like adding wings to an ordinary car to make an airplane out of it. This helps eliminate kickback far better than the splitter does. When the riving knife factory installed is in the non through cut positon it hits the saw table insert as i am raising the saw blade thus stopping the blade from being raised to its hightest possible position. A riving knife is a flat piece of metal that is mounted just aft of the saw bladewhen you push a workpiece through the saw blade the riving knife is designed to keep the two cut sections of the board from closing up thus pinching the saw blade and causing dangerous kickback.