Fedido Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 I have been not checking this amazing site due to numerous things, but one of them was repacking the bearings on my saw. I used the following video: The video proved useful and I even learned a few things to share. 1. don’t attempt this in your garage in the dead of summer in South Carolina 2. 7mm nuts can be replaced with nuts off the shelf at Lowe’s. (Stripped nut, not one that escaped). 3. see rule one while the reason for doing it was that the tension and the lifter arm were not smooth, I ended up greasing those bearings and it is good to go now. Did I mention not to do this in your garage in the hatters part of the year in South Carolina? also had a bracket break, hence the long turn time. Just thought I would share the experience and I will not be doing that for a while. OCtoolguy and amazingkevin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DME72 Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 (edited) gwinnett woodworkers has a 4 part series on tearing down and fixing the dewalt 788 scroll saws, search youtube for the videos. all total they are several hours long. lots of great info though doug Edited July 4, 2020 by DME72 OCtoolguy, Fedido and barb.j.enders 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 36 minutes ago, DME72 said: gwinnett woodworkers has a 4 part series on tearing down and fixing the dewalt 788 scroll saws, search youtube for the videos. all total they are several hours long. lots of great info though doug I use a program called "aTubewatcher" to download videos from youtube to my computer. After downloading all 4 of them I used Windows MovieMaker to stitch them all together into one movie. I referred to it often when I had my 788. DME72, Fedido, amazingkevin and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 I enjoyed the video very much!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!! OCtoolguy and Fedido 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedido Posted July 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 I saw those videos that last hours, but I also know my attention squirrel!!!! What were we talking about? OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 I also used the four part video from Gwinnett when I did my DeWalt years ago. I couldn’t find any on the ex-21 when I did that one last fall. But I made out okay with it just taking my time and laying the parts out in order. I will be taking the Ex-21 apart again soon to replace the whole guts of the machine. I might try to put a video together of the process. Roberta Moreton and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Moreton Posted July 5, 2020 Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 13 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: I also used the four part video from Gwinnett when I did my DeWalt years ago. I couldn’t find any on the ex-21 when I did that one last fall. But I made out okay with it just taking my time and laying the parts out in order. I will be taking the Ex-21 apart again soon to replace the whole guts of the machine. I might try to put a video together of the process. Please do! OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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