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I have replaced all of the oil-contaminated switches.
The emergency stop is a bit exaggerated
The red rotary switch is a direction switch. I would rather make a specific selection to go either forward or reverse than to rely on the travel of the start lever to perfectly land in the right catch. There is very little resistance on the start lever when moving it from "forward" to "stop", that it is too easy to lift it all the way into "reverse". Something that I didn't have a problem with on other lathes, but this one really has no catch in the middle to force the start lever to resist being snapped suddenly from forward to reverse.
In the photo below you can see both forward and reverse limit switches have been removed (lower right of photo, unused pair of screws sticking out). I've put back only one limit switch and a new one there, too.
Now to go forward the selector switch has to be rotated to the FWD position, and I don't have to fuss with the start lever slipping into the wrong position when I bump it off.
The emergency stop is a bit exaggerated
The red rotary switch is a direction switch. I would rather make a specific selection to go either forward or reverse than to rely on the travel of the start lever to perfectly land in the right catch. There is very little resistance on the start lever when moving it from "forward" to "stop", that it is too easy to lift it all the way into "reverse". Something that I didn't have a problem with on other lathes, but this one really has no catch in the middle to force the start lever to resist being snapped suddenly from forward to reverse.
In the photo below you can see both forward and reverse limit switches have been removed (lower right of photo, unused pair of screws sticking out). I've put back only one limit switch and a new one there, too.
Now to go forward the selector switch has to be rotated to the FWD position, and I don't have to fuss with the start lever slipping into the wrong position when I bump it off.