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redsil

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  1. This may be just a basic guide for identifying: Yellow: Bosch; Red: Milwaukee; Green: Hitachi; Blue: Makita. Start with that. Also Harbor Freight has one under their Chicago Electric brand and it is kind of orange/yellow. There are other imports out there so let me know what color and we'll go from there.
  2. In my 50 years of repairing power tools, I would recommend Makita battery tools, especially the new Lithium-Ion battery tools. Pricy? Yup but in my opinion, the best. Since Milwaukee was bought out by Ryobi, you can expect a steady decline in quality. B&D bought Porter Cable but the P-C battery tools were never first rate. I always liked Hitachi. Craftsman is a definite home handyman set. DeWalt. What can I say. O.K. I once had T-shirts made up when I had my business saying "Dewalt is going to make me Rich!" If they spent as much on the insides of the tools as the fancy yellow housings and cases, they might have decent tools. Nuff sed.
  3. Jesus! Why does everybody always say "just buy a new one"? O.K., to slow down this jig saw, just go to Harbor Freight Supply (www.harborfreight.com) and look for a Variable Speed Control. They have them and I've used a bunch of them. Good luck.
  4. If you are only getting a shock at the handpiece when you hit the foot pedal, the problem is in the hot lead (usually black) on the foot pedal or in the handpiece. I would suspect the handpiece. Pull the brushes out, take the back cap where the wire goes in and see if any wire is touching the housing. Tape it up. OR maybe one of the brush leads from the field coil is touching the housing. In any case you have a hot lead touching the housing or touching the ground lead. If its a fairly new one, there isn't a ground lead but the older ones do have them. Let me know what happens. Don't be afraid to take it apart. It doesn't work right now! Make drawings and sketches of disassembly proceedure.
  5. Old, all metal belt sanders are still great tools. To fix this, you're going to have to disassemble this tool. Here's what I think: Pull the brushes and look at them. They should be shiny and slightly curved on the ends that contact the armature (actually the commutator). If one or both are powdery and the brush spring is blue and has lost its springiness, the armature or field coils or both are no good. However, if the brushes look good, pull the armature out and use some fine sandpaper on the commutator - the copper bars on the brush end of the armature. Clean 'em up! Then make sure the brushes can freely slide in their holders all the way down. Next check bearings or bushings are free. WD-40 is the pixie dust of choice. If all is O.K. and there are 2 wires coming down from the field coils to the brush holders and they are O.K., put it back together. It should work! I've been in the power tool repair business for 49 years. I have an old Stanley belt sander that I still love.
  6. I think that the rod is a mount for the blade guard - which is probably long gone. Craftsman didn't think very far along the learning curve in the old days. Lots of these saws were sold to schools so they had to be pretty simple. If it bothers you and it doesn't hold the saw together, just get rid of it!
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