I was trying to cut some 18 ga steel today with my jig saw (skill variable speed) and it just kept spitting out the blades.
It's tooless to install the blade, just slide the collar up and instert the blade. Blades stayed until I started cutting and yes I was using metal blades. Last I used this was for notching some 2x6's and it worked fine a few months ago. 5 or 6 years ago I cut a window hole into a PC case cover and it worked fine.

Any idea what's wrong?

Eric
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