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"Somewhere" here I have a key switch that was mounted on one of the SS's that I bought. It was in a common utility electrical box mounted kind of low over on the right end of the SS. The power cord went into that box to be switched on or off and then went from there to the headstock as normal. The regular switch was used to operate the unit and the key switch (looks a bit like an ignition switch) was just to prevent the wrong person from turning it on.
I'll see if I can find it and get a picture of it.
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I will be spending most of today cutting up a large maple tree that blew down in high winds yesterday and ripped down my electrical service from the road to the meter / breaker pole in the barn lot. We had just gotten home about 10 minutes earlier and we were happy that we were not still standing there. We were in the older Chrysler T&C work van and it suffered some light damage to the front end. Thankfully the better van, a later T&C was sitting behind the farm shop instead of its normal parking spot. If it had been in its "spot" (reminds me of Sheldon Cooper) It would have been totaled.
One of my gg-grandfathers was "totaled" by a tree in a storm.


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Skizzity wrote:

JPG wrote:

reubenjames wrote:1. Just easier if they can't power it on at all. 2. Don't know how to set the password!

I think the lock sends an immediate message that a password cannot.

Oh ok. I'll just unplug it then.

Kids know how to plug it back in!

So a lock on the receptacle? Would have to also lock up all the extension cords.

Where does this end?

Fail Safe? Sure, in yer dreams maybe.

You could always install a switch control panel of say, 8 or 10 switches which would need to be set at the correct position in order for "current" to flow to the motor???

Of course, You would need something like a flight control manual just to fire it up!!!!!

Mike

Or if you want to go only a little over-the-top, you could replace the toggle switch with a keyswitch. Below is one from my 1958 Dewalt MBF radial arm saw. The key was MIA when I bought the saw, but I got lucky and found a source of new keys on eBay just a few bucks each.
You can still buy similar motor-rated keyswitches, but they are pricy.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#5049t1/=11tm2cb

The price of those makes the padlock solution look pretty attractive.

Don't want anyone on my case for promising a pic and not delivering.

I was going to pick up a lock for my son's shopsmith. He has kids and others who might wonder in and while I'm at it I was thinking of a part that I remember that locks the speed dial.......now where did I see that? Anyone?

BTW if you have the new powerpro and the C housing I think the key on the power switch pulls out, right? I have one but I have never tried...... well something to do this afternoon.

Ed

reible wrote:I was going to pick up a lock for my son's shopsmith. He has kids and others who might wonder in and while I'm at it I was thinking of a part that I remember that locks the speed dial.......now where did I see that? Anyone?

BTW if you have the new powerpro and the C housing I think the key on the power switch pulls out, right? I have one but I have never tried...... well something to do this afternoon.

Ed

Make sure you neither lose track of it nor break it.