"Frank Rowe" wrote in message
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Help!

I have a 20+ year old Craftsman Radial Arm Saw (model 113.199450), on
which the motor just burned out. Sears (noth the website and the phone
help people) says they can no longer get that motor because it's not
made anymore. The motor part # was 63608. Neither can I get parts for
it. At this point, the answer I get from Sears is to just pop on over
to my local Sears store & buy a new saw. However, that's about $600
more than I was hoping to spend.

Are there any other sources in the world for replacement motors? I've
googled the model & part numbers ti no avail. I was hoping someone
here knew of another electric motor source.

I've surfed previous messges in this group, and a recurring theme
mentions a centrifugal switch that's supposed to cut out the starting
circuit. But neither the Sears psrts listing nor the motor itself
reveals anything that looks like a switch. Am I somehow missing it?
It is hard to imagine that a motor that is only 20 years old can't be
repaired. Take it to an electrical
motor shop.

Sears motors of that vintage were made by Emerson Electric. The motor is no
longer made because
Sears sent all the business to China.

You may not be able to identify the switch as a separate part. It might be
part of the armature; it
certainly needs to be directly connected to the armature. But people at an
electrical motor
shop would certainly know. If that switch did not disconnect the start
winding, you may be in
for a big bill because start windings are not designed for continuous use.
Hence, it may have
burned out and need to be replaced.

However, the switch may not be the problem. Usually the part that fails is
the capacitor. The motor usually
will not start if the capacitor is bad (and I must say that untrained people
like me have a hard time telling
that the capacitor is gone to heaven).

Jim