Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Dewalt Reciprocating Saw blade keeps falling out

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Posted by Scott McGuire (Member # 4508) on 08-12-2008, 11:24 PM:

I have a dewalt saw and the blade keeps falling out when i am cutting metal. this saw has the twist release clamp. any one have this problem and if so how did you fis it?

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 08-13-2008, 02:49 PM:

How old is the saw? When I worked at Menards those clamps were junk for a couple years, but I thought they improved that long ago. I don't remember there being a good way to fix it. We had a lot of returns.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 08-13-2008, 03:10 PM:

I've seen similar clamps on other brands that could not hold the blade in tough cutting.

Posted by Scott McGuire (Member # 4508) on 08-13-2008, 09:14 PM:

It has been a few years. I haven't used it much until the job i am on now. I have been cutting some murphy channel out of the grid in a theater to install a new fire. Along with alot of other steel where we have removed the old rigging and its in the way to install the new. I'll e-mail dewalt.