Winston wrote:
Yup. I don't know about others but I experience a disproportionate
'warm and fuzzy' feeling when I repair something like that.
....

I 'spect that a much-larger-than-average proportion of RCM'ers feel that
way. I certainly do. Just the other day I got a broken recip saw from
a neighbor. Not because I need one - I have 2, & not because he wants
it fixed - he'd already bought a new one. Just because I was curious
about the failure (side-to-side blade motion) & if I could fix it.

Bob