Porter Cable 7424 Broke

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Be careful when you are using your Porter Cable mine came apart while i was polishing the top of my car
 
Wow, a lot of this happening lately. Must be a bad batch. Have any pictures?
 
What exactly broke and what were you doing when this occurred. Porter Cables normally just don't break and there is not a lot of them breaking.
 
DCStyle said:
What exactly broke and what were you doing when this occurred. Porter Cables normally just don't break and there is not a lot of them breaking.
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What broke? And I assume it was an XP model since it was posted in the XP section.


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Yes, what broke? Porter Cable have been making and selling these machines for many many years and there will be always a few that will requried to be repair under warranty. Contact Porter Cable and they will help you for repairs.
 
zoomzoom mazda5 said:
Yes, what broke? Porter Cable have been making and selling these machines for many many years and there will be always a few that will requried to be repair under warranty. Contact Porter Cable and they will help you for repairs.
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The only thing that changed is NOW they are made in Mexico.
Third unit posted in last wk or so with broken shaft.
 
They been made there for a few years now, it was to keep cost down but who knows for sure. It's still is a great machine to use.
 
zoomzoom mazda5 said:
They been made there for a few years now, it was to keep cost down but who knows for sure. It's still is a great machine to use.
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From personal experience when you have a product made in Mexico you must use all available parts and machining in Mexico. Not much of quality control unless you bring your own people there to manage the facility.
 
mark58 said:
The only thing that changed is NOW they are made in Mexico.
Third unit posted in last wk or so with broken shaft.
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They are now made in Mexico and China and I have counted 9 broken Porter Cables in about 2 months here on AG---more so than any other DA buffer during the same period.
 
Capa1970 said:
They are now made in Mexico and China and I have counted 9 broken Porter Cables in about 2 months here on AG---more so than any other DA buffer during the same period.
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You need to do better research, the Griots machine has far more failures.
 
Capa1970 said:
They are now made in Mexico and China and I have counted 9 broken Porter Cables in about 2 months here on AG---more so than any other DA buffer during the same period.
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I think all appear to have same issue. Broken shaft. From few earlier pictures I saw looks like top of the shaft snapped off and it appears they were hardened and not drawn back.
Just my 2 cents
 
Yes, Was it a batch of the shafts that were made not under the spec's? Maybe it's the casting of the metal in the shaft area? Who knows but if it's under warranty then have them fix it for you.
 
DCStyle said:
You need to do better research, the Griots machine has far more failures.
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I've only seen 3 ppl (or less) post about having a Griots break over the past 3 years. That is unless they let it roll off the car, or drive over it

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mark58 said:
I think all appear to have same issue. Broken shaft. From few earlier pictures I saw looks like top of the shaft snapped off and it appears they were hardened and not drawn back.
Just my 2 cents
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It is actually from making the tool work beyond the limits it was designed to do. It originated as a finishing sander for wood and now is just a polisher, a polisher is made to do very little defect removal.
 
Remember it's a machine like any other out, sometimes they break and need to be repair.
 
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