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This is definitely a plastic smell, not varnish. There is no cooling fan on the motor. It is so hot that it will burn skin in a flash. I also replaced the dry-rotted seals and sealed up all the typical leaky spots...around the motor housing and around the intake. I took the fan housing apart to ...

It may have been the load. I was using my CNC and had it hooked up to a 2" dust line hose. The other two inlets on the dust collector were capped. Possibly it was trying to draw too much through the cnc hose and that caused the overheating issue. Going to re-try today and leave the two inlets open ...

I recently picked up a NOS DC3300 that was never used. I hooked it up in my shop and after about 2 hours of running, the motor got extremely hot...so hot, one can smell plastic overheating. I took the entire assembly apart and nothing seems wrong...it truly was never used as eerything is clean and ...