Emergency shutoff

[earlgo]

Ha! Where do I apply for the safety feature of the month award?





Or maybe I should just give up on rigging things and concentrate on doing it right!

--earlgo

[JackF]

I love the KISS principal.

Jack.

[spro]

Probably no award. I think if it works, it is good. That's one of the latest Atlas's and I think they are all good.
What is the "kiss" Jack ? Unless it is binding, to not rock, the item between centers.

[mcostello]

I understand now----------- stomp on the pedal and tear the switch clean out.
SPRO- Kiss= Keep It Simple Stupid, not meaning You are stupid.

[spro]

Oh gee thanks..which I know is debatable but we really don't have time. Actually some of those toggels can carry 12 amps at 120volts for a while and were rated at 15 amps. They look the same at the end and fit D or 9/16 hole. Around there. They were very good switches. I have one with. extended bent shaft which is the run cut-off switch of a horizontal bandsaw. The motor is at least 1/2 hp This is the type which has been in discussion recently and the precursor to the Asian ones. It was Dayton and a bit different rag when I bought it. Well worn and I put eccentric bushings to suspend the worm drive and exact every living possibility out of it. It still runs strong. When one area is steel and another bronze...and what was dry before is different.

[spro]

Oh yes I know what this means. The ways in which it could have been. Allow me misspeak No there was something different. I can make friends and enemies in one hour . Still the platform is correct and forgiveness is not mentioned. Don't speak and other notions which seem to be from a different gender. Across the mikes and miles baby don't love me, don't.
If I remain miniscule my absence is shared in minute ways . Why ? I can't say "WHY"

[earlgo]

Re: the switch

That is the same switch that came with the machine in 1958. It has never been replaced and has never failed. It toggles on and off a 110v, 4.8a, 1/3hp GE motor, which is probably why it has lasted so long. The catalog says this lathe can use a 1/3 or 1/2 HP motor.

--earlgo

PS. so no award?

[Russ Hanscom]

Safety is its own reward. You have made a positive improvement.

[spro]

I suppose you noticed a previous reply which had no bearing on the topic. I was surprised to see that here. Consider I sent bearing and pressure information and amperage overload to the wrong place also. If wasn't so funny it would be sad

[bubby-joe]

Really like your lathe dog setup, prussic knot is it.

[earlgo]

bubby-joe there is a better picture of the lash-up in the thread 'Lathe Tooling", and my reason for it.

--earlgo