It doesn’t work now. (Really??) Anyway, before I tear it apart I just wondered if anyone had any ideas of what I might look for in terms of fixing it.
Actually, it wasn’t me that left it in the rain. I’m pretty anal about my tools. I bought it from the person that left it in the rain. It looks really good and isn’t beat up at all and I don’t see any rust or exterior corrosion anywhere, not even on the battery contacts.
If there’s something inside that I can see, corrosion etc., I can clean that up. But if a component is bad, I’d need a bit of guidance in troubleshooting that.
You hook up a charged battery to it and it won’t budge or make a sound, not even if you try to get it going by giving the blade a shove.
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Start with the trigger, water won't trash a DC motor.
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Maybe there's a way to test by bypassing the trigger? I'll see if I can find a way to do that. Never tore one apart before, but it doesn't seem like it would be hard. If that's all that's wrong, I'll be thrilled!
Still gotta take it in half to bypass the trigger, its pretty straight forward, I had the same saw till afew yrs ago, gave it to my son-in-law.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Just wanted to thank you for your advice. Tonight I got the time to take the trigger switch out and bypass it, going direct from the battery pack to the motor. The saw ran fine, so the problem is the switch.Aggravated that a new switch is $35 at the local PC store. So for nearly half the price of a new saw, I can buy the switch. That's wrong!
cool. Try cleaning anything in the switch? some can be popped open.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Sometimes when I have to clean out a switch I find it's riveted. What I do in that case is drill out the rivits and replac them with screws. --------------------------------------------------------
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Sometimes inaccessible electrical contacts can be cleaned by flushing with hydrocarbon or chlorinated solvent - VM&P naphtha [available at paint stores], methyl ether or parts wash chemicals based on methylene chloride, trichloroethane or perchloroethane may be available at auto parts stores.
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Hmm..that's interesting. So I'd just squirt it through any available opening in the switch, shake it around and let it run out? Took a good look at the faulty switch last night. It's completely sealed. So I thought maybe I could take a little bitty Dremel wheel and carefully slice it open along the "lid line" and put it back together with super-glue after cleaning. Some of us sure go through a lot of trouble to save $35! But when you don't have gobs of money to throw around, you tend to pay attention to what you do have.
If the switch is completely sealed, then it would seem that its failure would not be from dirt or debris in the contacts.I think I'd consider the value of my time and buy a replacement switch.
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