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My mill motor refused to turn on yesterday. It didn't get hot, so I suspected an electrical problem. Here it is waiting to be taken apart:
The obvious culprit was the switch. Time to take that sucker out! The wires are labelled when I first took the motor apart after receiving it.
Silly me took the stack of parts apart without noting which way the cams went on the hex spindle. Luckily I have another motor on the lathe head, so could use that as a reference. To avoid making the same mistake again, I marked the parts with a pen, and made this handy reference:
I didn't see anything obviously wrong with the parts, but some contacts were pretty discolored. I filed them a little, and polished with 600 grit paper. After putting things back together, it works like a champ! Hope that picture might be useful for someone (perhaps me in a few years when it happens again!).
The obvious culprit was the switch. Time to take that sucker out! The wires are labelled when I first took the motor apart after receiving it.
Silly me took the stack of parts apart without noting which way the cams went on the hex spindle. Luckily I have another motor on the lathe head, so could use that as a reference. To avoid making the same mistake again, I marked the parts with a pen, and made this handy reference:
I didn't see anything obviously wrong with the parts, but some contacts were pretty discolored. I filed them a little, and polished with 600 grit paper. After putting things back together, it works like a champ! Hope that picture might be useful for someone (perhaps me in a few years when it happens again!).