William O Young

And so have I seen many people change the circuit boards on DeWalts .I was one of them along with all the knocking noise adjustments and bad switch's and other issues to keep my Dewalt working before I sold it for 100 bucks. It would not surprise me one bit if the Excellsior has the very same circuit board as the DeWalt .

It is a XL-16 saw. Fuse No 38 , part #2400160380. My background in early years as a certified radio and TV technician with my own radio/TV sales and service shop and showroom means dealing with replacing a fuse either in clips or soldered to a circuit board is something I could easily deal with but only after finding the fuse .Where they have hidden it in this saw is a mystery to me but I can only suspect it being right on the circuit board. Looks like a beast of a job to pull that saw apart to look for the fuse just in case that "might" be the problem instead of a dead motor. Not wasting any more time on it now .The items I wanted to cut out on a commission basis for next week have now been cancelled . I will pull it all apart in the new year to see if I can get it working at a minimum cost in order sell it . This thing is nothing but glorified DeWalt and I wore one of those out in 3 years and replaced it with a commercial quality P-20 Wish I had never sold that saw.I feel sure the person that got it is still using it . At the back left side at the bottom there is a plastic plug with a screwdriver slot to remove it. I took that out and it shows a small part of the circuit board inside there. No fuse showing and no useable parts on the board.Why they have the plug and a view of the board is beyond me because nothing could be repaired through that hole . http:// http://

Thanks Ray , I have now gone over the parts list in the manual for the third time and it does indeed show a fuse as #38 in the list but the exploded parts diagram shows no mention of where they are hiding it. Just shows it out all by itself on the page . I will search again and sure hope I can find where they are hiding that fuse .I hope I don't have to tear the saw apart to find it soldered onto the printed circuit board which is where I suspect it might be . If I can just get it working I will get rid of it as fast as I can while it is working .

Got it by process of elimination down to being pretty sure it will be the motor if there is no fuse in that saw. Checked out Seyco site as parts supplier. They show picture of the motor but no price. I expect the motor would be VERY expensive . Does anyone here know of a supplier of parts that shows actual price of motor ? I have been doing mostly turning of advanced segmented , laminated and dizzy/vortex bowls in recent years That is why that saw has less than 20 hours on it from brand new . I am getting thoroughly discouraged with the quality of power tools being flogged on the market with high prices from China .Every time I turn around there is a major part to buy . I just replaced a $265.00 part on my Jet Drum sander a couple weeks ago .Woodworking has become a hobby for the wealthy and is why I will be selling out the entire contents of my shop first of the year. I just sold my 2 3/4 HP seldom used Bosch router and Bosch router table as a start a couple days ago . Of course I can't sell this scroll saw that isn't working and any way I go about it , it will cost me a LOT of money just to get rid of it . Probably more than I paid for it if I have to replace the motor. Either that or sell it cheap for parts .

Of course I have tried all the usual things like blowing it out with compressed air and flipping on and off repeatedly and of course the receptacle it is plugged into is live . I have also turned the motor over several times with a screwdriver But I do not know if that saw has a fuse or not . No mention of it in the manual . So it looks like a defective motor on a saw that has less than 20 hours on it. We all know how ridiculous high cost motors are on any tools . I am an advanced scroller having made Dome clock and Roman Cathedral and over 100 clocks of various sizers. Have worn out both a Delta and DeWalt in the past . This saw was "supposed" to be a good one. I was able to get the switch out this morning and bypass it .So it is not the switch and most likely the motor if there is no fuse . That saw is $720.00 in US funds and $972.00 in Canadian funds where I live. Have not checked yet but I bet a new motor would cost way over half the price of the saw if it compares with other types of motor powered tools .

My expensive and seldom used Excelsior scroll saw will not start . I have not used it for about a year but it has always been in a warm heated shop. I have bypassed the foot switch in case that was it but it wasn't . Before I start pulling it apart to check switch etc , I thought I would ask here fist if anyone else had this happen to their excelsior and what they found to be the cause .