William O Young

I totally agree with everything you said there .Some like you and I understand that but your message was well explained and will be helpful to some that may not be aware of the facts .

That was a good read John. There will always be a lot of sales propaganda on any make and model of anything..I got a chuckle reading about how good the blade holders were .Why do you think so many are replacing them with the Pegas holders. I was pleased to see he was truthful about the dust collector.Like he said , it suckes the wood down to the table so it can't be turned and it plugs up with dust. I took that thing off in the first week and made my own which I also made a video of. Problem with that mess of a dust collector system they tried was that it left a whole bunch of not only useless holes but they are in close enough to the tmain center hole that they can interrupt with top feeding .With top feeding you move the wood to where you think the center hole is in the table .If you are off a little , you gently push downward on the blade and move it a little until it drops through. Quite often I would have the blade drop through one of those useless dust collector hole and of course had to be taken back out and repositioned into the bigger hole in the center. Do you think they are going to send everyone a new table with just the one hole in the center like all other makes and models after sending them out with a botched up mess of a table right down to their paint job on the table that looks horrible after a few hours of use . ? ? ? ? Don't hold your breath .

Nobody has to be concerned about ordering or stocking such a simple thing as a little glass fuse . Every auto parts store carries just about any size and types imaginable and most of them are open seven days a week .Even in my small town one of the is open all day every Sunday .

I cannot believe some peoples way of thinking on this grease or no grease topic. Original clamp is physically bigger than the Pegas one with a bolt through it and full width plastic or nylon or whatever you want to call it lever . The Pegas one is just a little strip on each side with a pin holding it i place and the whole piece is considerably smaller than the original . Original instructions say use grease . There is a lot of pressure on that little lever when tensioning a blade and you are rubbing dry plastic against dry metal if you are not lubricating it .To me it only makes sense to use a little grease as per original manufacturers suggestion. If you are doing mostly outside cutting the lever will last for ages .If you doing fretwork and switching from hole to hole thousands of times like I have done with larger pieces I would never run it dry. If a person really wants to run it dry rather than taking half a minute to apply a little high quality grease at suggested intervals I would suggest keeping at least one spare in a safe place for when it will need to be replaced instead of having down time of having to order one.

I have no idea what size fuse was in my DeWalt or in the newer ones because I never blew on e . Perhaps it was overfused and is why my board fried instead of popping the fuse .

WOW , Kevin's list says 3.15 like in my saw and your King manual says 5 . My manual is not King. It is Excelsior and no mention of fuse size anywhere in it apart from it being #38 This raises even more concern for me. Were they blowing circuit boards with 5 amp for certain production runs of those machines and reduced it to 3 to prevent returns under warranty ? I am sure the manufacturer would never explain the reason but at least I didn't get a blown out board by being over fused .

Whereabouts did you find it John ? . Page number ? Yeah I know your eyes are probably better than mine .

What make and model and size of saw are you referring to John.

Definitely lubricate it . I have the owner's manual right in front of me and am typing from it., ********Blade Tension Lever Lubrication.Regularly apply a small amount of white grease or petroleum jelly to the friction point of the blade tension lever to allow for smoother operation. and help extend the life of the lever. Re-apply after every 10 to 15 hours of use or as needed depending on the amount used .******** The original clamps come with a spare lever in a bag because they know damned well you are going to need it even when lubricating them . Stupid design but good for sale of parts. So same thing should apply to Pegasand at the price of those clamps they should be including a few spares. . I use synthetic white grease on mine

Yes , two sounds like you have enough . Sometimes it's nice to have a spare one or two and I know some that actually do . . . . I would never be able to sell it to anyone in the states .The identical saw except with the King name on it is 700 bucks on amazon.com plus $35.00 shipping to a US address. With Exchange rate for Canada it would be $992.00 in Canadian funds. . . . Figure just over $1000.00 when paying UPS their fee for anyone picking it up a parcel that size just over the border . Amazon.ca in Canada doesn't stock i or sell it even though it is distributed by King Canada . . . Figure that one out . ? I usually sell used equipment for half price but with this one so close to new I will hold firm at $600.00 cash picked up from my shop .Someone will surely buy it at a $400.00 discount if they have been led to believe it is such an awesome make and model beforehand . Not by me but where they have read it elsewhere. . . lol . . lol . . . EDIT Just remembered . It would be subject to 12% BC taxes in order to bring it across the border into Canada so that makes it 1,120.00. So $600.00 with no taxes will seem like a real good buy locally for anyone that wants one of those . https://www.amazon.com/King-Industrial-Inch-Scroll-Saw/dp/B075NSG5RS/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?keywords=16"+excelsior+scroll+saw&qid=1575332590&sr=8-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzVTRKSzZVQTBLSVZXJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzk2MTE1MkE0NVdTMk9HNVBDTCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwOTA0NzI0SjFEVFIwVUZBUjdUJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfbXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

EXACTLY and in the case of the saw it would either fry the circuit board or the motor windings. I have been getting a chuckle from the ones that say to put in a heavier fuse. And probably one or two more ins and outs of that flimsy little plastic fuse holder and it won't be possible to even get another fuse in there. You have to put one in and out to believe it but I hope you never have to . Why couldn't they have spent an extra 50 cents per saw and put in a regular fuse holder that we are all familiar with and so easily serviced . Something caused that fuse to blow and I am not going to wait around to find out or even do any more sawing on it. I won't even bolt it back to the table . It will go up for sale first of the year and of course used items are sold as is with no warranty . . If it is running when the new owner tries it out and buys it I can only wish him all the luck in the word with it and as soon as I see his tail lights leaving the driveway I will delete my video .

Here is the video I promised. Gosh , I was impressed with my new upload speed of 300 mbps on both upload and download only too about 7 or 8 minutes to put that one in you tube .

I guess you missed in my previous post that I had said it had been in a warm heated shop the whole time.By heated I mean just above freezing in the winter time except when I am going to work in there and I turn up the heat about an hour before time. My shop is so dry that I sometimes wonder if I should have a humidifier in there. Of course the first thing before even checking the switch was to put a screwdriver in the end of the motor shaft and even though it was free . I put a screwdriver bit in my cordless drill and spun it over for a while like that . I was aware of those dead spots that I had to free up like that so many times back when I had my DeWalt and apparently this is the very same interchangeable 1.6 amp motor . I have finished doing a video and am about to upload it into you tube.. . .So stay tuned .I will post it when it finishes uploading

I guess you missed the discussion further back in this thread that says I have found the elusive fuse and replaced it to get the saw running..As soon as shop warms up I will try making a video.