Table Saw motor not working after cleaning sawdust from it

Did you read the manual ? Maybe there is a trouble shooting section there.

dude, if I was there in person, I’d punch you in the face! I’m not stupid!

Try coming back to a thread of mine, when you have something productive to offer. You rarely have anything to help anyone.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

Did you try something else in the outlet to make sure the circuit breaker isn’t tripped?

-- John, co-owner Sawdust 'n Stitches

Yeah, John I sure did. It’s narrowed down to the saw, I plugged a radio into that outlet and nothing, halogen lights, nothing…

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

???? You plugged stuff into the outlet, nothing works. Sound like the outlet has no power to give to the saw.

-- Joe

You think that punching me in the face would be smart ? And people wonder why I get an attitude ? Goodluck with your Playskool saw.

sorry, not what I meant Joe… It does work, nothing more from the table saw when I tried again.

I purposely didn’t edit the post above that said I got nothing. Unlike you Woodchuck.

Woodchuck, quit trolling.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

hey thug check your switch with all that dust flying it may have compromised a contact ,is power getting to the switch is power coming out the end ? if so your problem isnt electric .

-- when a tree falls in the forest.......Quebec ,Canada

You probably blew a wire clip off, or worse case broke a wire by blowing into the motor. If you ar going to try to fix it yourself it’s motor dissassembly time and see what you see. I don’t know how that motor is constructed, but some motors also have electrical contacts inside and possibly you blew a chip of wood between the contacts.

-- Joe

Maybe you just blew dust into the on/off switch box? try wiping the contacts

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

Joe, that’s possible, but I won’t be taking the motor apart as I know nothing about the insides of motors.

Kiwi, the on off switch is sealed.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

In the old days you could take the motor to a motor repair shop, but I don’t know if those places exist anymore in our throwaway world. I doubt that there is an off the shelf motor for that application so it would seem that you have to work with Hitachi – or you know buy a “better” saw.

A lesson learned the hard way – use compressed air judiciously. In my former life one of my buddies was a machine shop manager and he had a rule for the shop – never clean a machine tool with compressed air. Granted, that was in metal cutting shop, but some of the same principles apply in a wood shop as well.

-- Joe

I think Joe is onto your problem. Many motor have a starter contacts that are centrifugally operated. The contacts have to touch when the motor comes to a stop- so it will start the next time. When the motor is started, the spinning of the armature causes the contacts to open. Maybe the air pressure forced a chip between the contacts. I had an old Sears Radial Arm that did this on a regular basis. If you still have the motor on the bench, try spinning the shaft by hand. If it is the starter switch, the motor may run if you manually start it.

As I reread your post, and I don’t mean to insult you, did you try pressing the wire into the back of the power plug? If the wire failed at the junction of the plug strain relief and the cord, it would cause this. This is a weak spot on any cord and can fail easily especially when unplugging the cord.

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Joe, you’re right, lesson learned. I have an older Craftsman Contractors saw still, so all is not totally lost, yet.

Les, not an insult at all. I’m no electrician at all, and I actually had to go to my Step Father house a mile or so away, to get his voltage meter, ( and school me on it). I’m about to try seeing if there’s voltage going through all the way, and if I can’t get things going, I’ll take the motor to him and we’ll pull it apart and check things out. As for the other part, I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean the contact on the on off switch? Those are all pushed on tightly. I do know from testing the reset switch that the circuit is ok there, just have to go to the actual wires now.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

I am new here so my thoughts are probably not worth too much. But when I was drivig a big truck and had an alternater going out, I would whack it a couple of times with a hardwood stick and get a lot more miles out of it. Worth a try. Just a thought. :o)

-- TheShadeTreeWW If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees