Scroll saw dremel 1800 help!

[Flowerflow]

Hey yall so I am borrowing a friends scroll saw 

A dremel 1800 and I was in mid use of it this evening and all of a sudden it just stopped working.

Now I know that power is getting to it because when it is plugged in the light works on it still

 

But when I have it plugged in and i press the button to turn the power button on I hear a faint electric static then I get freaked out soni turn it of .

 

 

I believe something electrical is going on with it.

 

Does anyone have any leads on how I can fix this ! 

Much appreciated, kara 

[BadBob]

Is there any smoke or burning smell?

 

[Peter N White]

Have you checked the brushes.

[OCtoolguy]

Loose wires at the switch?

[Norm Fengstad]

I have dremel which is  parked under a bench, when I used there was always dust in the switch most times I could blow air on it however often had to change the switch. 

[kmmcrafts]

I had a Dremel 1800 back in the day.. I think I had to a power switch in it twice and on the second time I turned it on and taped a cut up latex glove over the switch area and left it on.. that was when I finally broke down and bought a foot switch.. Man.. I can't imagine running a saw without a foot switch now days..  

[Flowerflow]

Hey everyone!!! Thank you so much for replying

 

We discovered that the On and off switch was not computing properly 

In some tests it would not work at all and in some other tests it was reading the off and on switch occasionally.

We Jimmied on a old switch that we had laying around and it is back to perfect working condition.

 

In addition I gave my friend thier scroll saw and got myself a used one off of kijiki so that if it breaks I'm not breaking all of my friends cool stuff ! 

 

My challenge now is that I break blades faster than I would like ! 

 

Thanks everyone 

[Wichman]

3 hours ago, Flowerflow said:

Hey everyone!!! Thank you so much for replying

 

We discovered that the On and off switch was not computing properly 

In some tests it would not work at all and in some other tests it was reading the off and on switch occasionally.

We Jimmied on a old switch that we had laying around and it is back to perfect working condition.

 

In addition I gave my friend thier scroll saw and got myself a used one off of kijiki so that if it breaks I'm not breaking all of my friends cool stuff ! 

 

My challenge now is that I break blades faster than I would like ! 

 

Thanks everyone 

In the lower right hand area is an arrow showing where I started cutting, in the upper left an arrow showing where the blade broke ( it was worn out, I was expecting the break ), this was at the 25 minute mark, and this is typical for the cutting I do.

1/2" Elm laminated from 2, 1/4" Elm boards. FD Polar #1 blade

 

Edited December 17, 2023 by Wichman
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[OCtoolguy]

19 minutes ago, Wichman said:

In the lower right hand area is an arrow showing where I started cutting, in the upper left an arrow showing where the blade broke ( it was worn out, I was expecting the break ), this was at the 25 minute mark, and this is typical for the cutting I do.

1/2" Elm laminated from 2, 1/4" Elm boards. FD Polar #1 blade

 

Beautiful work, Wick. I'd like to try that pattern. Where can I find it?

[Wichman]

1 hour ago, OCtoolguy said:

Beautiful work, Wick. I'd like to try that pattern. Where can I find it?

This pattern is from the Book Classic Fretwork Scroll Saw Patterns by Patrick Spielman & James Reidle.

[OCtoolguy]

53 minutes ago, Wichman said:

This pattern is from the Book Classic Fretwork Scroll Saw Patterns by Patrick Spielman & James Reidle.

I'll look for it. Thx.

[Flowerflow]

Very coool.

 

So your saying that potentially and theoretically  a blade will break every 25 minutes?

By the way that is awesome work it looks tight! !!!

During all of that i was working on this snake playing hockey.

With the names carved out below.

 

I discovered that I was imagining the name was barff and its actually scarff. So I scrapped the letters. And will have to start again lol  

 

Oh cooky cooky fun life  

[Wichman]

4 minutes ago, Flowerflow said:

Very coool.

 

So your saying that potentially and theoretically  a blade will break every 25 minutes?

 

Nooo, I'm saying that with that blade, in that material I break a blade about every 30 minutes, Your mileage may vary, but it is a reference point. 

If, you are breaking a blade every 5 minutes there may be a problem, every 60 minutes, then you're doing pretty good.

It's the same as how long it takes you to cut out a pattern, it's not a race, but we all want a reference point.

  

[BadBob]

Blade breakage depends on too many factors to have a hard, fast rule. I rarely break blades.

[Bill WIlson]

14 hours ago, BadBob said:

Blade breakage depends on too many factors to have a hard, fast rule. I rarely break blades.

I agree 100%, except I break blades routinely.