Dave bolak Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Working outside in -20 degree Celsius. My miter saw doesn’t want to fire up right away, it screeches and slowly turns for about ten seconds and sometimes starts to smoke before it starts spinning normally. It keeps working fine after that if I’m continually making cuts. The blade is stiff to turn by hand too before I get it going for the first time. All my other saws (skill saw, table saw etc.) work fine. Only have a problem with the miter saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingless Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Welcome to the forum. Get out of Dodge, so the problem stays there and you get warm. It is highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s this week in southern Florida... The saw lubrication has either degraded or is inappropriate for those cold temperatures. When I relubricated my hole shooter the old grease was hard and the new OEM grease was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jronman Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 2 hours ago, wingless said: Get out of Dodge, so the problem stays there and you get warm. It is highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s this week in southern Florida... But Hurricanes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingless Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Jronman said: But Hurricanes... Sure, coming from Mr. Tornado Alley... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisK Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Ha. Move to New England. Few hurricanes, fewer tornadoes, the wildlife ain’t trying to kill you. The worse thing is the driving, but I’ve been to Florida and yeesh.... everything... EVERYTHING.... is trying to kill you! Plus...New England has...Tom Brady. Nuff said. As far as the saw? Beats me bro, have you tried replacing the brushes in it? Also, welcome to the forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jronman Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 13 hours ago, wingless said: Sure, coming from Mr. Tornado Alley... Ever since they started keeping records there has never been a tornado within city limits at least that is what I have heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave bolak Posted February 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 I’ll be staying up in Sask for now. This has been the coldest winter we’ve had in a long time. I’m gonna try to take apart my miter saw this weekend. I mainly use it to cut cement board siding. Might be full of cement dust. We’ll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 Keep us posted on this. If you're cutting fiber cement with it you should use a dust extractor with it, that dust is pretty abrasive and with the screeching sound along with the blade being hard to turn by hand it could be gummed up with the dust 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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