Wood Pigeon
Seedling
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2026
- Messages
- 31
- Reaction score
- 19
- Name
- Charles
- LOCATION
- Schleswig — Holstein, in Germany
This Skil jig saw got pulled off the bench, by its cord, and suffered a nasty crack in its case, plus a hole in its side.
So I took it apart and then sealed up the crack, from the inside, really good with two-part epoxy.
I covered the hole with a piece of aluminium sheet-metal, carefully curved to match the case, and glued it in place with two-part epoxy.
The repair held, and never had any problems after that.
Another power tool destined for the bin, but rescued!
By the way, it is a 120 volt model, so I plug it into a 230 Volt to 120 Volt step down transformer. It was indeed built for 60 Hertz but runs cool and happy on 50 Hertz.
Charles
So I took it apart and then sealed up the crack, from the inside, really good with two-part epoxy.
I covered the hole with a piece of aluminium sheet-metal, carefully curved to match the case, and glued it in place with two-part epoxy.
The repair held, and never had any problems after that.
Another power tool destined for the bin, but rescued!
By the way, it is a 120 volt model, so I plug it into a 230 Volt to 120 Volt step down transformer. It was indeed built for 60 Hertz but runs cool and happy on 50 Hertz.
Charles
