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Well I sure do appreciate all of your greetings and suggestions. I guess I did purchase this unit from Goodwill some time ago but kind of forgot. Also somewhere I found out when it was made which was 1993. Then without a burning need I kind of forgot about it. Well as it turns out I have a recent need for this saw. Have to try & make a grill of 1/4" plywood, for an antique radio from a photograph. But when turning it on, I found the motor was binding up. Had to take the motor apart and install new bearings. Got it together again and now must ask some questions. This unit will not accept blades that have a pin on the end. I have not seen any blades without pins locally. What should I do? Not sure this was a good idea to pick up this unit as seems to be a relatively inexpensive unit. All metric. I have attached two pictures of the unit as purchased. Wondering what the gadget is, attached to the mounting board. It apparently had some relationship with the saw but can't even hazard a guess. Anyone? The table does not have a very good or accurate tilt gauge. No stops etc. But will limited knowledge this is not something I need at this point. Know nothing about scroll saws. What should one look for when purchasing one? This unit may work for me. Remains to be seen I guess. Unit is fairly heavy so it does not vibrate at least. But wondering about the saw guide mechanism etc and how well it will function once I install a blade etc. I tried to find someone locally who would cut this out for me but could not find anyone thus decided to get this unit working and try to do it myself. So can use your help. Lee from the Tri Cities, WA Have attached a couple of pictures of the unit. I anyone can identify what the gadget attached to a corner of the saw wood base is, that would be really appreciated. I have no clue of what it is or what it could be used for. Must have had some connection to the saw however at one time.

Thanks all of you for you interesting replies and comradery. I will send a picture of my saw & myself if possible as soon as I get it back together. I picked this saw up somewhere a few years back and never tried to use it, since it seemed to have parts missing. But needing it right now for a project, I thought I would try to see if it was usable. Well tried to turn it on and it sadly tried to operate but motor would or could not run. Thus took the motor off and apart and both bearings are bad and will replace them. As soon as I get the bearings back in and back together I will post another message. Hope it will run okay after assembly. One question I have is that this unit does not appear to want a typical pinned scroll saw blade. When I went to purchase some blades, all that were available were pinned ones. Did they once make unpinned ones and are they still available? Not sure if I can remove the pins from these blades I purchased. Are there different blades available depending on how fine of detail you wish to work on? Nice to have so many reply and this may be quite an experience for me. To give you an idea of what I am trying to do, is I have an antique radio that is in pretty good condition, however had the 1/4" wood speaker grill busted out. I got on the antique radio website and there was one radio owner who also had one like mine. I copied the picture from the website as best I could, however it was kind of distorted and I had to redraw somewhat. My plan is to take the b/w paper of the grill and to paste or tape to 1/4" plywood and then proceed to cut out as best I can. This radio is a Philco model 86 produced in 1928 or 1929 and my radio is on the extreme right. http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1928.htm I am sure I am going to need some help & support since I have never used an electric scroll saw before. It will be interesting to also know when my scrollsaw was produced and further info on it. Pix coming. Just Me/Lee

I am a new member. I have a D.Y. Scroll saw and first of all would like to know if anyone knows anything about the company. I did an Internet search and could not find any info on the company. I can't even remember where I obtained it, or even when, but it was some time ago and it appears to need some repairs but don't know anything about it. I have a project where I need a scroll saw thus thought I would see if there is any hope to get this saw functioning. I could supply a pix of it if that would help. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks/Lee