Folks -

Okay, since the TS mishap last summer and my conversion into a "Safety
Saint" - it has paid off, blade protection, eye protection, kickback pawls,
hearing protection...... I have often wondered about the efficiency of
unplugging the TS when changing blades - it has a magnetic starter... it
seems that perhaps I'm being a bit anal about it... I've wondered.... but I
*still* unplug equipment I'm working on.

Anyway, over at the school woodshop, they've got a 20" Jet planer with a mag
switch... It has been "balky" and doesn't always start when you hit the
"go" button... Yesterday, I was cleaning it up, adjusting the belt and
checking it out... I plugged it back in, and was about 6 feet away and all
of a sudden, it just starts right up! Holy You-Know-What! Jeeeeezus! What
if that switch had been on the TS, and I *didn't* unplug it before mounting
a dado stack? It puckers every orifice that I have just thinking about it!

Can magnetic switch be reliably repaired? Can I use this replacement from
Grizzly? The planer is a 3 horse single phase...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...&s=hi&n=228013

SO, guess what - I am going to keep unplugging equipment when I work on it,
regardless. Scary.

Just thinking about what could have happened puts me in a cold sweat.
'preciate any feedback y'all can give about repair or replacement of that
switch...

John Moorhead