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All,
I am still new to this machining thing. Whenever I am playing around with the work, or the chuck, I like to have the lathe shutoff for safety and not rely on the little handle on the carriage. I therefore push in the reset/E Stop button to kill power.
This button is cheap, and sometimes I have to fiddle with it to get it to pop back out and restore power. Seems like a momentary button would be a good plan wired in series with the E-Stop to save the life of that switch. Seems like the lathe uses a magnetic starter, or something similar, so one power is cut to it for even a few milliseconds it won't resume even after power is restored. Seems like a momentary switch would do the trick.
Any thoughts? Has anyone else done this?
---Aaron
I am still new to this machining thing. Whenever I am playing around with the work, or the chuck, I like to have the lathe shutoff for safety and not rely on the little handle on the carriage. I therefore push in the reset/E Stop button to kill power.
This button is cheap, and sometimes I have to fiddle with it to get it to pop back out and restore power. Seems like a momentary button would be a good plan wired in series with the E-Stop to save the life of that switch. Seems like the lathe uses a magnetic starter, or something similar, so one power is cut to it for even a few milliseconds it won't resume even after power is restored. Seems like a momentary switch would do the trick.
Any thoughts? Has anyone else done this?
---Aaron