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It's a Greenie Rob!SDSSmith wrote:Often times only one side of the switch fails. If this is the case and you are in a pinch to get a job done, you can tie the neutral wires together and attach the black/blue wires to the good side of the switch.On the newer headstocks and switches, Shopsmith only switches the power leg.
I understand it is a greenie and it should have a DPST switch on it. Or am I missing something?JPG40504 wrote:It's a Greenie Rob!
My Goldie has a spst switch!(original). Is it 'unique'?SDSSmith wrote:I understand it is a greenie and it should have a DPST switch on it. Or am I missing something?
I cannot remember an older Shopsmith Mark V that was not DPST (including one Goldie). The model 10/10ER also used the DPST switch. Now of course this is only a small sample size of over a hundred machines and statistically would not be sound. But based on my experience your machine is unique. Maybe your memory of replacement resided in a brain cell that no longer exists.]http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/item ... =Find+Item[/URL]JPG40504 wrote:My Goldie has a spst switch!(original). Is it 'unique'?
SDSSmith wrote:I cannot remember an older Shopsmith Mark V that was not DPST (including one Goldie). The model 10/10ER also used the DPST switch. Now of course this is only a small sample size of over a hundred machines and statistically would not be sound. But based on my experience your machine is unique. Maybe your memory of replacement resided in a brain cell that no longer exists.]http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/item ... =Find+Item[/URL]
I am reasonably confident that some of mine will never wake.JPG40504 wrote:Oh they ALL still exist! Waking them up can be a fruitless task at times!:D You have successfully raised a murmur of doubt. Perhaps it will awaken given more time. What bothers me is that I would have replaced it with a dpst as a general principle.
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Farley did you take heed to #190 Whoops! #10
Just have to make the best with the rest!At the risk of waking up the wrong memory, my 'recollection' is that it was not. Only the line cord(one wire) and a motor lead ran to the switch.dusty wrote:When wiring an older machine with the toggle type switch, was the neutral (white) wire switched as well as switching the black (hot) wire?
Contrary to the information provided by another stubborn user, on the machines that I have seen they used a DPST (double pole single throw) switch and did in fact switch the neutral. As I noted earlier you can get by with just switching the power leg and tying the neutral wires together.dusty wrote:When wiring an older machine with the toggle type switch, was the neutral (white) wire switched as well as switching the black (hot) wire?