"C & E" wrote in
:

Many of my old Craftsman power tools have the switches going bad and
they don't carry them anymore. Most of the stuff is from the '60's
and early '70's - circular saw, scroll saw with the rotating blade
shaft and a nice small router. I am mostly interested in the scroll
saw because it's the best of the three. Actually, come to thinkof it,
I can replace the router switch with a standard SPST electronic switch
(think, your first car's dashboard with the under-dash lights). Is it
salvageable?



I recently cut out the old switch on my lathe-turned-sander. To control
it, I hooked a 20A light switch to a duplex outlet (also 20A--most stuff
is 15A) and connected a plug to the other end. Now rather than messing
with a bad on/off switch, I've got a good light switch. As a bonus, I
can plug the vacuum in to the outlet and turn them both on at the same
time.

Something like that might work with the scroll saw, where it would be in
the same place all the time.

Puckdropper