I am in the process of disassembling a DW788 scroll saw and examining pieces and parts. The motivation was what I thought was/is excessive noise/knocking. I am using a 4 part youtube series forthe disassembly. Why initial thought was to just replace all the bearings and sleeves - the saw is 20 years old. Thar sounded good until Instarted lookingat replacement costs - pretty steep if you do them all. My question - has anyone done this and found a reasonably priced source for the needle roller bearings and sleeves? As a point of reference I have found sources at $7.00 a bearing - there are roughly 16 bearings in the machine. Sleeves are not much cheaper.
Thanks for any thoughts
Rick
Thanks for any thoughts
Rick