"Bill Noble" wrote: (clip) do NOT go to radio shack for it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There is a good chance that the clerk at Radio Shack won't know what it is.

One good reason, besides safety, not to use a single pole switch, even
though it will turn the motor on and off, is that a double pole switch is
much better at suppressing arcing. This is an issue on inductive loads like
motors.