Busted jigsaw motor - fixable?

My Honda CRV needed two ABS sensors. =A3160 each from the dealer here (= without fitting, easy enough to do myself), not available elsewhere. I = got a friend in another newsgroup to buy two in America and ship them ov= er to the UK, which I think ended up at =A3110 each.

Then the same two sensors needed replacing on my VW Golf. =A312 each fo= r genuine parts of =A35 each for copies. I will never buy Honda again.

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Uncle Monster posted for all of us...

I haven't read all the replies but he stated he had a shorted coil. Wouldn't he have to undercut the commutator or at least scrape out the safarcous to tell?

I am not familiar with Mexican quality. Is it as s*it as Chinese?

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca posted for all of us...

And depending on the supplier it sport about a 75% failure rate. Could have asked the price prior to authorizing the repair.

I would check the tension on the belts. Sounds like it's too high; which will cause this problem. Wasn't a Leece Neville was it?

On Mon, 09 May 2016 20:16:23 +0100, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

bits, found a shorted coil in the motor, and disconnected it. But it's = still doing this (sew video). Is there anything that can be done, or do= es it go in the bucket?

ave a unique training program there -- it's called a lion.

utator and perhaps sand the end of the brushes a bit, not a lot, just ge= t the glaze off of them. I've extended the life of a lot of universal mo= tors in such a manner. ^_^

I looked up a wiring diagram and that kind of motor apparently has each = coil connected between neighbouring contacts on the commutator. Not the= way I expected, I always thought they'd be at 180 degrees to each other= , but apparently the brushes always connect several coils in series. So= I tested every neighbouring pair with an ohmeter, and one pair was 10 t= imes less resistance, so I disconnected it.

Now I've just had a thought - I've done something daft haven't I? If on= e coil is disconnected, then the series of them is also disconnected, wh= ich explains the rough running of it still - it's only conducting in the= other half? When I take it apart to think about changing the brushes, = I'll do more resistance tests between the brushes at various points in t= he rotation.

However, if all I had was 1 shorted coil, and there's always 12 in serie= s, why would that bother the motor in the first place?

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Ralph Mowery posted for all of us...

Does the name Tanaka sound familiar? Denso, Bosch?

There was a discussion a couple of months ago here about IIRC a starter whether to buy a low price gamble or exact replacement.

Oren posted for all of us...

A "growler"?

Make it purdy...

On Mon, 09 May 2016 20:36:35 +0100, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

I always buy cheap s*it for a car. As it'll most likely still outlast t= he rest of the car.

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We've had a hot, dry summer this year. It was so hot that one of my neig= hbors said his wife even thawed out.

Okay, I'll take your word on this. (And he confirms it.) I didn't know this could happen more than one in a million.

My wife's Lincoln was 45% foreign sourced. It should be on the sticker.

That is more than some "foreign" cars built in the US. Honda Civic is

Yeah, we remember George Wallace and Forrest Gump.

Too warm to be bothered starting a fight.

People who design power tools are idiots. They never provide enough cooling for the motor. I sent a brush cutter back after 3 weeks because the motor burnt out with 30 minutes use.

I assume you mean in price. Odd how they claim we're giving off too muc= h CO2 for that global warming bullshit, yet it's more expensive to buy i= t=E2=80=BD

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