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Martin Eastburn Martin Eastburn is offline
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Default Drill Press Foot Switch

Mills have a nice optional unit for tapping - auto-reverse on a set of
gears in the unit itself. It goes into jaws (or holder...) and the tap
into it's jaws.

Made just for taping.

Martin

On 2/5/2017 3:33 PM, wrote:
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