Mine still ran but you had to kick start it in the right direction via
the cooling fan after removing the cowl. The start winding must have
burnt out but the main winding seemed fine. I finished off the cutting I
was doing at the time before organising the replacement as all told it
was offline for several days due to factors such as stripping it,
ordering new bearings, motor, remachining the pulley to suit a metric
shaft etc .

Tim Killian wrote:

I learned the hard way to never let these saws run unattended. Mine
stalled (blade had a few broken teeth) when I was in another room and
the motor kept spinning the belt on the stuck pulley. It got hot
enough to melt the plastic belt guard, and clouds of acrid smoke were
billowing out when I walked into the room. Another minute or two and
I'm sure it would have caught fire. The China-crap motor on mine
survived though, and it's still cutting metal.



David Billington wrote:

I have a 4x6 from MachineMart in the UK which I would expect comes
from the same sources. They are not known for selling the highest
quality items but its horses for courses. It has done a lot of work
so the £170 it cost delivered was money well spent.

I had the motor on mine burn out after it stalled while unattended, I
was in another part of the workshop at the time. Whatever burns in
those certainly would make a good chemical weapon as I couldn't get
near it for the smell which would make your eyes water. The motor had
upto that time done about 6 years good service.