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Holy crap! (pun maybe intended?) The eye one freaks me out...ahhhhh!

It's actually still used for wounds in the medical field and has been since WWI, I believe..awesome stuff... my dad glued himself to our fireplace once when I was young. Goodtimes...;-)

I love that idea! So, you have a 12x36 on a toolbox? One of mine is the old HF 12x37 and it's about 850lbs or so...I guess those boxes are rated for well over 1000lbs..very cool. Even better is that the Harbor Freight tool chests are actually really nice...and affordable. Now I'm excited. :-)...

So, good news! I JUST got it running properly. So the final things I did, ended up being: -rebuilt the KA relay, again... -replaced the KM1 contactor (originally thought the switch was bad, but eliminated that and traced it down to the contactor itself.) -found a loose wire connector that was in...

Correct. I miss said that. I was referring to 'earth' on the transformer. The LED was a 24v bulb (very tough to find) that completes part of the circuit in the control panel. Strangely, the bulb worked when I put it back in the other day...after I ordered two new ones...lol.

Ok. some tentative good news. I think it's figured out. (knock on wood) So the KA contactor was bad. I switched stuff around as I traced and tested all the wiring and put a new one in place and got reverse spindle to work. The light bulb is also working. Forward isn't working right now. I...

So, with power on, no direction selected, the transformer has 22v coming out of #2 and 4v coming out of #1 and KA is energized. When reverse is selected #2 is 24.7v and #1 is 1.4v KA is de-energized When forward is selected #2 is 25.5v and #1 is .75v KA de-energized also (I still have no...

Ignator, thank you for that! It all made sense and I'm going to start tracking down everything again, with a good plan this time. I'll report back with voltage readings and findings. Meanwhile, I managed to draw a wiring diagram for my lathe. I hope I did a decent enough job on it. Oh, and the...

Welcome to the party..lol. I can manually engage the contactors and the motor jumps to life. Would it make a difference wiring directly? I can do that easily, but the motor seems ok.

Yes! sorry, I've calmed down after a night's sleep...:-) Your schematic from #20 looks to be the one. I only have one indicator lamp, too. I agree with not thinking the light bulb is the problem, I'm just keeping it in the back of my head as I tinker. I saw from your #20 post, the KA is...

Ok...bear with me here. I'm losing my patience...lol. I took the original contactor apart and it had some parts falling out. I got it back together and it seemed to work ok. Suddenly, I had reverse spindle direction. no forward...still pretty exciting. I swapped the fwd/rev switch wires to see...

That’s exactly what mine is doing. Cool...sounds like the contactor is the culprit. Ah, yeah...he and I worked together here in the states years ago. Really good guy. Miss that crazy little Aussie! Lol I need to get there to visit.

Are you referring to the switches on the front next to the change box? I think I hooked up my meter to them and they were switching on and off..would anything else be wrong that wouldn't show with the multi meter? I should have the new power light monday, and the new main relay/contactor is in...

Ah, the motor caps.. when that happened, were you still able to manually engage the contactor and run the motor? When my contactor de energizes, I can push it back in and hold it and the motor fires right up immediately.

Ah, yes, sorry, poor choice of descriptives. The ‘pop’, I meant to describe the de-energizing of the magnetic contractor. When power is on to the machine, that first relay/contactor pulls in and should stay, I believe. When a spindle direction is chosen, that contactor de-energizes and nothing...

Funny, you say that. I was standing next to the plug this morning and thought the same thing. Ran it back to the sub panel I had installed...all good.

Yes, all good bits of info. I wish there were some sort of safety switch that I just didn't see, but I've been over every inch of this thing and see nothing...kind of odd, really. Yeah, I hear you about those crimp on connectors. I have tugged on each one and checked their set screws, too...

Yes! Thank you Carl for the unbelievable work you put in deciphering the schematics! And Anatol, thank you, too, for troubleshooting the insanity! Ah, wish I knew about the Van Nuys place. I just ordered an exact replacement online. not bad, though. Actually, the bulb from the light is 24v...

I've run through all the wiring and everything seems to be clean and hooked up properly, but without the LED in the power light, I'm stuck. I have one on order, along with a new transformer. The trans keeps giving different readings and it didn't used to. It's also making some nice loud...