Greetings all; I don't recall if I mentioned buying a Kawasaki 14" cutoff saw from TSC or not.
But I did, something over a year ago when I was cutting bits off the end of a 1x2" bar of TSC steel to make the nut holders for the balls screws I put in my toy mill. It ran a little slow for a 14" blade, only 2800 revs, so it was difficult to actually get the cutting fire started, and it ran perhaps 10 minutes total, cutting 2/3rds of the way thru the bar, but then got noisy and slowed considerably. I could turn it fwd by hand. but backwards, which would be the working face of the stepdown gear in it was a draggy, felt like the bull gear was plastic and had overheated, deforming the gear teeth. Took it back to TSC, but they claimed I had to contact the vendor, which was AllTrade. Had them look up a phone number and I came home & called them. On giving them the model & serial data, they came back and said that particular model had never ever been in their inventory, and suggested that perhaps TSC had bought them off a rickshaw in Kowloon. IOW, a warranty claim against Alltrade wasn't possible. So I was a bit peeved as I was out a buck and a half on it. I stewed a day or so, still needed a saw, and when I went back in they had lowered the asking on the dewalt version to the same price, so I brought one of them home and finished that project. And although the dewalt was higher rpms, it was still about 1500 slow for a good 14" wheel. The fire could be started but had to be pushed to keep it going. So today, I drag the green monster back out of the shed, intending to salvage the base and vice for something, and the motor for something else. Knocking the reduction gear loose and working it out of the houseing I was amazed at the gear condition, like new, looked like good steel, all running in Torrington needle cartridges. Humm, go to other end of motor & remove the end grill. Nice needle bearing cartridge there, supporting the rear end of the motor shaft. Stuck a 17mm wrench of the gear hub flat and turned it, turned fairly free. Turned it the other way, back end of armature turned in the brushes, but not in the bearing! A 10mm motor shaft was broken in two between the commutator and the rear bearing, so the armature was bouncing about 1/32", totally unrestrained by the bearing. I have never in my 80 years seen a shaft broken off like that. So I saved the line cord and switch, and deposited the rest in my trash trailer. That was a $150 lesson that says if you buy something green from the tool shelf, it had better say Hitachi on it. Same for a yellow "Cub Cadet" (an I.H. brand) lawn mower that claims a Kawasaki engine. The only thing Kawasaki is the label on that turd. That was a $400 lesson as it was a supposedly top of the line self-propelled mower. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
