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Lots of us here have them. You can do some serious work with these machines, way better than a mini mill IMHO.
John
John
No, the switch is not back together. If I get it back together with all the cams in proper position,Guess the first question should have been: Did you get the switch back together?
Questions:
1) Do you currently have 4 wires coming from motor? If so then you are fine. One pair should show very low resistance <5 ohms. (main windings)
2) Is one blue wire thicker than the other? Not too important but can be a helpful bit of info.
3) Did you remove all jumper wires from switch or are they still in place in their original positions?
-Mark
those switches are a bear. I had to take one apart to see what it was doing inside.. just curiosity. it was so hard to put back together.. I'll never do that again. They are great switches though. I used mine for a HVAC blower. It's my big blower to remove bad air, fire smell and soot (wife nearly set kitchen ablaze years ago), and spraying. It has a 4 speed motor, and is too powerful most of the time on low. So I use a smaller one now.Note to self, always take pictures, and then take better pictures.
The FWD/OFF/REV switch on my HF 33686 Milling Machine stopped working most of the time, intermittently worked.
So I took it apart, I did find two sets of contacts that were burned and pitted, but were far from the worst I have seen.
I cleaned them up. Now that I have torn it all apart, I'm questioning whether the switch even had a problem, because after several
assemble and check of rotation, cams and switch pointer, all of the sudden I turned the switch and the shaft dd not turn. Then the screw
to tighten the clamp around the shaft becomes obvious.
This leads me to believe that the original problem was the knob rotating around the six sided shaft feeling like a detent, and not switch contacts.
I run the machine on 120Vac.
Now I'm trying to reassemble the 4 section switch with 12 springs and 16 separate contacts that need to be put into place.
And then the cams also need to be installed properly, however, I think they are all in the same orientation, so that may be easy.
AC---Hot and Neutral come in on two connections and on the opposite side are 4 connections that go to the motor.
I can probably do this* if someone can give me a drawing with 4 wires from a motor wired for 120Vac showing how
forward and reverse are implemented. Even if it uses 2-SPDT switches to show the wiring.
Can someone make or find a drawing of such.
**Assumes parts don't go flying more times than I can find them. Already lost a spring but the junk draw had one.
I've searced the carpet for a part 5 times already.