Sawzall Blade Broke In Tool

[seagull369]

I just had the tang break off inside the chuck of my Super SawzNone. For the life of me, I just can't get the darn thing out. I tried side tapping it with a hammer, using a dental pick and wasting my time with a magnet.

I looked at the exploded diagram of the tool to see how to get the chuck apart and maybe fish it out that way, but didn't have any "ah-hah!" moments when looking at it. I thought the part numbered 9 would be Allen screws, and I could just unscrew them, but the parts list says they're "orbit pivot pins."

Anyone have a suggestion? Here's a snapshot of the diagram:

 

[Lassen Forge]

You need to take the nose off your saw and disassemble (carefully - there be springs there) to get to where the bent piece of blade is... The whole pivot pin keeper may be part of the issue, if so, you'll need to separate the 2 clamshells (29) which is what secures your pivot pin , take the pin out to expose the drive shaft where the broken bit of the blade is, remove your bent and broken blade, then put it all back together.

It's not hard, just time consuming. But IIRC there's a ring that holds the 2 "clamshels" together (I think it's #67)... Been a while since I dug into one of these, it's not hard to get to that point, just time consuming.

 

[mowkep]

Ditto, done that before. It was a bear to get out

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Try grabbing it with thin needle nose, forceps or tweezers. Once you turn the release they usually aren't that tight.

 

[seagull369]

Try grabbing it with thin needle nose, forceps or tweezers. Once you turn the release they usually aren't that tight.

Absolutely no room in there for any of that. The blade that broke was extra thick making matters worse

I forgot that I changed out the recipro half of the tool a while back from a donor saw which had a different cat. number, so that diagram I showed isn't actually accurate. Sorry about that, Lassen, but thanks anyway for the walk-through.

With some big help from a scraper and magnifying glass, I was able to reveal a circlip which holds on that springy, knurled piece you twist to unlock the blade. Once I got that off, I was able to remove the single pivot pin (which inserts itself into the hole in the tang to lock the blade in place), put my pick in and push up on the broken piece from there to get it out.

 

[PugetDude]

The old-style blade retainers with a single allen-head screw are much easier to get a broken blade out of. Just remove the screw and turn the saw on; the broken blade just flies out.