The recent post on a DeWalt tool prompted me to post this issue.
It's a DCD 793 drill/driver and I bought it to replace a bad trigger switch on the previous one. Age of previous about 2 years.
This one also has a switch issue - but it's the forward/reverse switch. Just after warrantee it started arbitrarily driving in screws (rotating CW) when I am trying to remove screws. It happens in about 1 in 12-15 "drives".
Setting it to drive in never causes the reverse.
This has caused various issues like messing up screw heads, splitting the wood, and even snapping a screw head off.
I talked to a DW rep at the last extravaganza and his answer was to look for a repair center on line.
I have not taken it apart, but wonder if the switch is magnetic, and gets affected by some of the extensions I occasionally use - they are magnetic to hold the driver bit in.
Anyone else seen this?
My DW jigsaw has developed a sticking switch which keeps the blade running after I release the trigger. Pretty dangerous.
So no more DW hand tools - I do have and really like their lunchbox planer.
It's a DCD 793 drill/driver and I bought it to replace a bad trigger switch on the previous one. Age of previous about 2 years.
This one also has a switch issue - but it's the forward/reverse switch. Just after warrantee it started arbitrarily driving in screws (rotating CW) when I am trying to remove screws. It happens in about 1 in 12-15 "drives".
Setting it to drive in never causes the reverse.
This has caused various issues like messing up screw heads, splitting the wood, and even snapping a screw head off.
I talked to a DW rep at the last extravaganza and his answer was to look for a repair center on line.
I have not taken it apart, but wonder if the switch is magnetic, and gets affected by some of the extensions I occasionally use - they are magnetic to hold the driver bit in.
Anyone else seen this?
My DW jigsaw has developed a sticking switch which keeps the blade running after I release the trigger. Pretty dangerous.
So no more DW hand tools - I do have and really like their lunchbox planer.