On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:57:02 -0400, "donald girod"
Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

My Sears circular saw threw some sparks at the brushes and stopped abruptly.
It had been working normally, no symptoms of trouble. The brushes and
commutator look fine, no obvious burn marks that I can see. There is
current to the brushes. When you press the trigger nothing happens (no
groaning or whatever), but if you hold down the trigger and give the motor a
spin by hand, it gives a repeat of the sparking, and kind of tries to keep
running.

Any ideas as to what might be wrong? If it is a shorted armature, I might
be willing to pay for a new one, but getting it serviced would cost at least
$50 plus parts, and this makes no sense. The saw is 20 years old and has
had some fairly rough use.


Got me for an answer to why this saw don't want to run,,,my question
is, how did you keep a sears saw running so long?
now, don't get me wrong,,,i am an avid sears owner, and im not
knocking them in any way.
after 20 years of "fairly rough use" i'd say its time to retire it to
the big tool chest in the sky, bite the bullet and spend another 100$
and get yourself a new one to make 20 more years of memories with

Traves