Burnt out the table saw motor; replace or upgrade time?
 

The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

Are you sure the overload is not tripped?
Harbor Freight has motors under $100.
Wilson
"slindars" wrote in message
om...
The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

The craftsman table saws I'm familiar with use a pretty generic motor.
You can probably find a 1 1/2 hp that will fit in the space. Got to be
a local place that sells overstock and surplus motors. 1 - 1 1/2 hp are
in the prime range to be available cheap.

bob g.

Wilson Lamb wrote:
Are you sure the overload is not tripped?
Harbor Freight has motors under $100.
Wilson
"slindars" wrote in message
om...

The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

There are 2 local shops that rebuild motors.

I have found that I could have them rebuilt for less then 1/3 the
price of a new one......

I would let my fingers walk thru the yellow pages and see what some of
the electrical shops charge for a rebuild.....

Bob Griffiths



On 5 Dec 2004 09:46:04 -0800, (slindars) wrote:

The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

The one I have uses a small universal motor, not the standard 1 hp motor
that is available everywhere.

Robert Galloway wrote:

The craftsman table saws I'm familiar with use a pretty generic motor.
You can probably find a 1 1/2 hp that will fit in the space. Got to be
a local place that sells overstock and surplus motors. 1 - 1 1/2 hp are
in the prime range to be available cheap.

If your saw is like my, the one with direct drive, don't bother upgrading
anything. The fake "trunion" flexes. A better fence won't help either.

slindars wrote:

The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

I went thru same issue a few months ago, and altho nobody locally (in
NW CT) seemed to bother with rebuilding single phase motors, I was
able to upgrade to a US-made 2hp motor for less than $200 from a local
supplier. Never bogs down even cutting 4/4 rock maple etc. Be sure
you match your shaft diamater(probably 5/8") and get a manual reset,
not an automatic reset. A local shop tried to sell me an auto reset
which would be a huge problem for a TS application, for obvious
reasons.

Bob G. wrote in message . ..
There are 2 local shops that rebuild motors.

I have found that I could have them rebuilt for less then 1/3 the
price of a new one......

I would let my fingers walk thru the yellow pages and see what some of
the electrical shops charge for a rebuild.....

Bob Griffiths



On 5 Dec 2004 09:46:04 -0800, (slindars) wrote:

The 1 HP motor to my craftsman tablesaw burnt out yesterday while
ripping a piece of 2" oak. The motor bogged down and died once, but
started up again. Then when making another cut it died for good. So
now I ponder what to do. I only paid $100 for the saw. I recently
posted about the thoughts on upgrading the fence for the saw, which I
would still like to do seeing as the stock one sucsk. And it raised
the same issue; do I put any more money into the saw or go ahead and
upgrade. My long term plan was to use the saw for another year or so
and them get a used cabinet saw. While I'd love an excuse to get a
new saw, I had planned on first rounding out the shop with a Bandsaw,
jointer, and maybe a planer. Thoughts? If anyone knows a good
source for replacement motors let me know. I'm in SE Flordia so local
places would be good too.

"Sean Dinh" wrote in message
The one I have uses a small universal motor, not the standard 1 hp motor
that is available everywhere.


Time to get a real saw. The direct drive motor is really not worth putting
money into if you look at the value of the saw in total. Now is the time to
upgrade to a contractor saw.

It's been delegated to onsite junk ripping, like spacers and shims.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Time to get a real saw. The direct drive motor is really not worth putting
money into if you look at the value of the saw in total. Now is the time to
upgrade to a contractor saw.