On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:47:47 GMT, "Gren" wrote:

I have two small children that love to visit me in my workshop. My worry
has always been that one day they may visit the shop when I'm not there and
some how turn on a machine and feed their hands in. Right now I keep the
door locked and ALWAYS unplug the machines.

I want to add another level of safety by putting onoff / key switch
controllers on all the machines but mounted on the wall well out of the
reach of any child.

Has anyone done something like this and if so where is a good place to
purchase the equipment.


Can you kill the power at the breaker(s)? If nothing else is on your
shop circuits, this may be a lot cheaper than replacing every switch,
even if you had to rehome the tool circuits to a small sub panel. You
could then lock the sub panel, if you needed even more security.

Also, many of my tools have switches with removable paddles. Pull out
the paddles, and the switch can't be activated. Look closely, some of
your tools may already be equipped this way.

Barry