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Mr. Sandman · 03-15-2009, 09:13 AM

Started on another brain-burb of an idea, popped in a "salty's blow out" to get started and within a few seconds I smelled something...I thought...WTF kind of wood is this???? then looked over at the switch and smoke was coming out of the ports for where the wires enter. Pop it off and a cloud of smoke came out and it looks like the contacts might have been touch slightly and were melting. I cleaned it up straighten things up and restarted it and it seems fine but while it doesn't smoke it still stinks. I ordered a new switch for the hell of it.

03-15-2009, 09:13 AM	#1
Mr. Sandman Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 7,649	Lathe switch started smoking bad... Started on another brain-burb of an idea, popped in a "salty's blow out" to get started and within a few seconds I smelled something...I thought...WTF kind of wood is this???? then looked over at the switch and smoke was coming out of the ports for where the wires enter. Pop it off and a cloud of smoke came out and it looks like the contacts might have been touch slightly and were melting. I cleaned it up straighten things up and restarted it and it seems fine but while it doesn't smoke it still stinks. I ordered a new switch for the hell of it.