oh boy,
I replaced my old pancake compressor, decided a 99 dollar compressor is not worth investing 25 or 40 bucks into it.
Ive been having nothing but headaches with my dw735 planer.
I had dropped it years ago(twice), and it never went up or down easy after that, but it worked, and I dealt with it.
Friday, while working, the adjustment wheel froze, wouldn't move at all. I gave it a little nudge, I broke a small 5 dollar piece.
but the entire chain mechanism was not moving, so the small sprocket thing I broke isn't stopping the chain from moving the body up or down.
seem the posts just got so overworn being off a drop, the threading was gone.
My son came over last night, looked up online, took the machine apart, took us almost an hour to take apart carefully.
looked up the parts, the posts, which it seemed clear I needed 2(the ones that the machine fell on), are 96 dollars each. A few pieces that go with it, the parts that hold the chain, tack on another 15 bucks each post, with shipping and tax, 250 bucks to repair this one.
after some thought, as much as it bothered me, I told him no, because maybe another post might be slightly mis threaded at 8 years old, I did drop the machined twice.
didn't want to get the parts, then something still isn't right. I was impressed once again, my son feels he can fix anything. any machine.
I ran to lowes and picked up another one, one I wont drop.
2 pieces of equipment in a week. Not happy.