A while back, I broke one of the fan blades. This set up a new noise when the planer was running. I ordered a new fan and installed it very easily. No need here to replace the motor. The inside of the 735 were pretty clean. Guess there was a big chip coming from planing a knot.dgale wrote:... I just recently had to replace the fan and housing as they had deteriorated over time and were allowing chips/sawdust to escape into the machine, which was then filling up with chips fairly quickly and jamming up the chain and sprockets for the raising/lowering mechanism...I guess this is a fairly common problem and often leads to people breaking the raising mechanism by then forcing it when it gets stiff. Fortunately it was easy and fairly inexpensive to order the parts from DeWalt and was a fairly easy replacement job. So, if you have a 735, make sure to remove the lid every once in a while and see if chips are building up inside...if so, the fan housing is the likely culprit and much of the damage was on the bottom/back side and almost impossible to see.
Good recommendation to clean out the inside once and a while, but mine has had little dust or chips. Lucky, I guess:)
