On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:33:25 -0800 (PST), "
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On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 2:47:34 PM UTC-5, wrote:

You might need to think about this a bit more. Assuming you have a single phase motor, it will not reverse instantly. But if it is three phase , you just need the foot switch to swap two leads.

Dan
Right. But the motor still defaults to reverse rotation so all I would
need to do is step off of the switch, not toggle it.
Eric

But if you are using a single phase motor, it will not reverse until the centrifugal switch drops out.

Dan
Capacitor start single phase motors only need to slow to about 80%
full speed before they can be reversed. With the tap drag this happens
fast. I have done plenty of this on small single phase motor lathes.
Eric