Need Help! My Scroll Saw Is Too Loud - Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Message Board

puzzled1 · 09-18-2009, 09:38 AM

On my birthday I was given a brand new 20" variable speed De Walt Scroll Saw. Yeah for me!

Anyways... When I first got the saw it was quiet as a mouse. I even cut wood at 3am in the morning just because I could. Well, lately it seems that the saw is getting louder and louder. Does anybody else have this problem? And if so what did you do to quiet it back down? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. You can reply here or email me at puzzled1@live.com

Thanks!

pat c · 09-18-2009, 10:52 AM

Your answer is right here under "fixing the knocking sound in the Dewalt" http://www.scrollsaws.com/ Click on free videos of scrollsaw tips......along with a whole bunch of other great info on Rick's site. Pat

dankc908 · 09-18-2009, 11:52 AM

I keep the liquor in another room. That helps the scrollsaw from getting too loud - especially on weekends!

Mick Walker · 09-18-2009, 09:54 PM

puzzled1, turn your radio up louder.

Don't own one of those yeller saws so can't help you.

puzzled1 · 09-19-2009, 07:12 AM

Lol! Yall are great. Thanks for the tips. Pat I will check out that site.

Thanks everyone.

Sally · 09-19-2009, 03:57 PM

Rick make taking the saw apart look easy - I'd be nervous during the whole process - I'd do it but I'd be nervous. I'm pretty lucky - I have a DeWalt service center about 25 miles away. So I guess I'm covered.

puzzled1 · 09-20-2009, 08:36 AM

yeah! I'm not quite sure if i'm up to taking it apart.

shwestley · 09-20-2009, 12:41 PM

I was having the knocking problem as well as a switch problem and was getting very frustrated about it. Thank godness I have a Dad. When he came over and fixed the knocking and the switch problem. When it was all said and done your on position is my off position and vice versa. I don't consider it a big enough problem to open the saw up again.

puzzled1 · 09-21-2009, 01:53 AM

Arn't Dads great!

You know I was using my saw today and I really don't think it's a knocking problem. It's the motor that sounds loud. When I first got it it used to just hum silently. It was so quiet that I could cut in the middle of the night and not wake my neigbors and I have paper thin walls. I don't know what it is. It's still quieter than my old saw. It was a cheap habor feight saw. That saw you could hear throught the whole complex.

ubgoofy2003 · 10-24-2009, 11:59 PM

That's strange, my saw is "yeller" & I don't have that problem !! Once in a while there will be a vibrating sound, but, not any length of time. Just good old "Yeller"
Perk

09-18-2009, 09:38 AM	#1
puzzled1 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 4	Need Help! My Scroll Saw Is Too Loud On my birthday I was given a brand new 20" variable speed De Walt Scroll Saw. Yeah for me! Anyways... When I first got the saw it was quiet as a mouse. I even cut wood at 3am in the morning just because I could. Well, lately it seems that the saw is getting louder and louder. Does anybody else have this problem? And if so what did you do to quiet it back down? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. You can reply here or email me at puzzled1@live.com Thanks!

09-18-2009, 10:52 AM	#2
pat c Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Woodbine,Ga Posts: 433	Your answer is right here under "fixing the knocking sound in the Dewalt" http://www.scrollsaws.com/ Click on free videos of scrollsaw tips......along with a whole bunch of other great info on Rick's site. Pat __________________ Woodworking is Therapy.... some of us need more therapy than others.

09-18-2009, 11:52 AM	#3
dankc908 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Council Bluffs, IA Posts: 90	I keep the liquor in another room. That helps the scrollsaw from getting too loud - especially on weekends! __________________ Dan (DeWalt 788) http://www.PensAndClocks.com "'Tis better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." --A. Lincoln

09-18-2009, 09:54 PM	#4
Mick Walker Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Janesville, WI Posts: 1,335	puzzled1, turn your radio up louder. Don't own one of those yeller saws so can't help you. __________________ Mick, - Delta P-20 The future ain't what it used to be.

09-20-2009, 12:41 PM	#8
shwestley Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: West Lawn, PA Posts: 15	Taking the saw apart I was having the knocking problem as well as a switch problem and was getting very frustrated about it. Thank godness I have a Dad. When he came over and fixed the knocking and the switch problem. When it was all said and done your on position is my off position and vice versa. I don't consider it a big enough problem to open the saw up again.

09-19-2009, 07:12 AM	#5
puzzled1 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 4	Lol! Yall are great. Thanks for the tips. Pat I will check out that site. Thanks everyone.

09-19-2009, 03:57 PM	#6
Sally Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Renton WA Posts: 1,024	Rick make taking the saw apart look easy - I'd be nervous during the whole process - I'd do it but I'd be nervous. I'm pretty lucky - I have a DeWalt service center about 25 miles away. So I guess I'm covered.

09-20-2009, 08:36 AM	#7
puzzled1 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 4	yeah! I'm not quite sure if i'm up to taking it apart.

09-21-2009, 01:53 AM	#9
puzzled1 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 4	Arn't Dads great! You know I was using my saw today and I really don't think it's a knocking problem. It's the motor that sounds loud. When I first got it it used to just hum silently. It was so quiet that I could cut in the middle of the night and not wake my neigbors and I have paper thin walls. I don't know what it is. It's still quieter than my old saw. It was a cheap habor feight saw. That saw you could hear throught the whole complex.

10-24-2009, 11:59 PM	#10
ubgoofy2003 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 486	That's strange, my saw is "yeller" & I don't have that problem !! Once in a while there will be a vibrating sound, but, not any length of time. Just good old "Yeller" Perk

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