rake60
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As most of you know, I work as a Maintenance Technician for a window manufacturing company.
This past week we had a presence switch break on a machine that happened to be on the busiest
production line. We found this:
The retaining cap was cracked through and the brass bushing and plunger button were gone.
The machine will not run without that switch. We didn't have anything in our stock to replace it so
the only option was to try and patch it up to work until a new switch could be shipped in.
I ended up making a one piece button out of nylon to replace the original bushing and button.
The back side needed a small blind bore with a larger counter bore.
This is meatball machining at best, but within about 25 minutes I came up with this.
It's a little worse for wear now but it did hold up for the three days that it took for a new switch
to arrive for a proper repair.
It's nice to have a good old lathe in the Maintenance Shop!
I'm pretty sure that 12 X 48" South Bend is older than me but it can still do what it has to
when it needs to. (Even if it isn't pretty!)
Rick
This past week we had a presence switch break on a machine that happened to be on the busiest
production line. We found this:
The retaining cap was cracked through and the brass bushing and plunger button were gone.
The machine will not run without that switch. We didn't have anything in our stock to replace it so
the only option was to try and patch it up to work until a new switch could be shipped in.
I ended up making a one piece button out of nylon to replace the original bushing and button.
The back side needed a small blind bore with a larger counter bore.
This is meatball machining at best, but within about 25 minutes I came up with this.
It's a little worse for wear now but it did hold up for the three days that it took for a new switch
to arrive for a proper repair.
It's nice to have a good old lathe in the Maintenance Shop!
I'm pretty sure that 12 X 48" South Bend is older than me but it can still do what it has to
when it needs to. (Even if it isn't pretty!)
Rick
