CrazyOatmeal

I fixed it - it was somehow a problem in the middle of the cable, no idea how that happened since there was no damage, and I already replaced the end near the grinder to a length of about six inches, but oh well.

I'm fixing an old Makita 9527 that turns on and off intermittently based on the angle it's held at, and recently has stopped working altogether. I thought it was the wire where it comes into the unit, but I replaced that section and it's still dead. I've also replaced the terminal block, which I get about 8 volts across, and the main power inside the unit reads 100 volts (110V model). Everything else inside the unit looks fine. I'm stumped as to what would cause such a weird intermittent failure. Any ideas before I start bodging parts?