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Drill Press Foot Switch
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill
press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. |
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:00:58 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. I have a couple drill presses wired with foot switches. The way I wired them I can switch between the foot switch or the regular switch. That way I have the best of both worlds. WhenI'm not using the foot switch it hangs from a hook on the drill press column. I use a different switch for the light. Eric |
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:00:58 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Sounds like a great idea. It sounds like it's a momentary switch, only on when you have your foot down on it, as opposed to a press on/press off style. Both ways have their pros and cons, I'm sure. I suggest wiring the lamp through the switch box so that it is always hot, then use the lamp switch for lamp function. That feels like the safest way. - "Surprisingly, open-minded Hollywood has not yet agreed to allow unvetted refugees to mill freely about their heavily guarded film studios." --Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest |
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On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:01:03 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. I bought a bunchtoy drill press off Craigs List that already had a foot switch wired so one could use either the foot switch or the switch on the drill press. And I can see it would be really good for some jobs, but I rarely use the foot switch. It is just that I usually do not drill two holes with the same drill. So before you run out and buy a foot switch, think about what kind of work you do. Dan |
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On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:01:03 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Just yesterday I put a foot switch on the vacuum cleaner that I use with my taig mill. For some jobs, there is very little swarf and no reason at all to keep the vacuum running and making noise. This is one of the best sanity-saving things I've done in a long time. I don't know why you wouldn't want to use a foot switch on a drill press if you're doing enough holes between tool changes to make it worthwhile. |
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On 02/03/2017 01:00 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Are you absolutely certain you will never accidentally step on the foot switch while changing bits in the chuck? -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" |
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On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 10:29:49 PM UTC-5, rangerssuck wrote:
I don't know why you wouldn't want to use a foot switch on a drill press if you're doing enough holes between tool changes to make it worthwhile. I agree. But find that I seldom use it. Dan |
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On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 9:05:55 AM UTC-5, Robert Nichols wrote:
Are you absolutely certain you will never accidentally step on the foot switch while changing bits in the chuck? -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Has not been a problem. THe foot switch that I have has the switch under a guard so it is not likely to be accidentally actuated. Dan |
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On 02/04/2017 06:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 02/03/2017 01:00 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Are you absolutely certain you will never accidentally step on the foot switch while changing bits in the chuck? I have a footswitch hooked up to my shopvac underneath my work table so I can quickly get rid of debris on the table. Over the years I have had this setup, there have been maybe a half-dozen times when I inadvertently hit the switch, which can be startling with a shopvac coming on unexpectedly. Jon |
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I have a VFD on my drill press, so the foot switch doesn't carry motor
current and is just some old thing that I found at the dump. One thing about it is that it is a rocker switch that closes different contacts by stepping on the right side or the left side. So I have forward & reverse. Reverse does get used, but seldom. I use the foot switch when I want to be able to turn the drill press off quickly, without moving my hand from the feed lever. Since I pretty much never clamp the work, my other hand is busy holding it. I power tap in the drill press & always use the foot switch for that. Right hand brings the tap down to the hole with left hand holding. Foot switch starts, stops, and backs up the tap. Bob |
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 08:04:19 -0600, Robert Nichols
wrote: On 02/03/2017 01:00 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Are you absolutely certain you will never accidentally step on the foot switch while changing bits in the chuck? Let's play "chuck the chuck"! WHAM! Oops. Most people only play that game once in their life. - "Surprisingly, open-minded Hollywood has not yet agreed to allow unvetted refugees to mill freely about their heavily guarded film studios." --Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest |
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 09:34:09 -0800, Jon Danniken
wrote: On 02/04/2017 06:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/03/2017 01:00 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Are you absolutely certain you will never accidentally step on the foot switch while changing bits in the chuck? I have a footswitch hooked up to my shopvac underneath my work table so I can quickly get rid of debris on the table. Over the years I have had this setup, there have been maybe a half-dozen times when I inadvertently hit the switch, which can be startling with a shopvac coming on unexpectedly. Especially one of those old 109dB units screaming at 16kRPM. The whole neighborhood knows when you clean your shop. -- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 13:26:45 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
wrote: I have a VFD on my drill press, so the foot switch doesn't carry motor current and is just some old thing that I found at the dump. One thing about it is that it is a rocker switch that closes different contacts by stepping on the right side or the left side. So I have forward & reverse. Reverse does get used, but seldom. I use the foot switch when I want to be able to turn the drill press off quickly, without moving my hand from the feed lever. Since I pretty much never clamp the work, my other hand is busy holding it. I power tap in the drill press & always use the foot switch for that. Right hand brings the tap down to the hole with left hand holding. Foot switch starts, stops, and backs up the tap. Bob Greetings Bob, I have thought about having a reversing motor for tapping on a drill press many times. I was thinking that I would have a motor that turns CCW by default and turns CW with a foot switch. Then all that needs to be done to back off the tap is to step off of the switch. Now I may really do it. Eric |
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On 4/02/2017 6:00 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. I set up a foot switch on the mister on my manual mill. I ran on small compressors for several years before finally getting a large commercial duty job, so was always looking for ways to cut air consumption. Also had a foot switch set up with an outlet so I could use it for my drill press or shop vac. Jon --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 2:45:05 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Greetings Bob, I have thought about having a reversing motor for tapping on a drill press many times. I was thinking that I would have a motor that turns CCW by default and turns CW with a foot switch. Then all that needs to be done to back off the tap is to step off of the switch. Now I may really do it. Eric 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 |
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On 2017-02-03, Bob La Londe wrote:
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Just make it so it is in a guard, so something falling, or a foot placed wrong won't start it while you are changing drill bits in the chuck. A quonset-hut shape bolted to a mounting plate for the switch would be good. Perhaps put it in series with the switch on the drill press head, so both have to be on to run the motor. Or a center-off switch with one position for motor on without the foot switch engaged, and in the other position, the motor waits for the foot switch. What I've done with my 1977 or so drill press is replace the motor with a three-phase one, with a small VFD on the side and three push buttons on the front. Two in guards for forward and reverse, and one with a big red cap for stop. (Oh yes, and a pot for speed.) The red STOP button is in the place easiest to reach, and I can even hit it with my nose to stop while both hands are occupied. :-) What I really like is to set the speed to barely turning, hit the FWD button while the tip of the bit is engaged, and then up the speed once it starts cutting. But -- there are times when I would like to have a foot switch, perhaps just for stop. Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2017-02-03, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Just make it so it is in a guard, so something falling, or a foot placed wrong won't start it while you are changing drill bits in the chuck. A quonset-hut shape bolted to a mounting plate for the switch would be good. Perhaps put it in series with the switch on the drill press head, so both have to be on to run the motor. Or a center-off switch with one position for motor on without the foot switch engaged, and in the other position, the motor waits for the foot switch. What I've done with my 1977 or so drill press is replace the motor with a three-phase one, with a small VFD on the side and three push buttons on the front. Do you use current-limiting fusing in the panel? |
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DoN. Nichols wrote: On 2017-02-03, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Just make it so it is in a guard, so something falling, or a foot placed wrong won't start it while you are changing drill bits in the chuck. A quonset-hut shape bolted to a mounting plate for the switch would be good. Perhaps put it in series with the switch on the drill press head, so both have to be on to run the motor. Or a center-off switch with one position for motor on without the foot switch engaged, and in the other position, the motor waits for the foot switch. What I've done with my 1977 or so drill press is replace the motor with a three-phase one, with a small VFD on the side and three push buttons on the front. Do you use current-limiting fusing in the panel? Or do you add any additional circuit-breaker protection 'solely' because the Variable Frequency Drive has been added? (I ask because I saw where another question like that was raised somewhere else on another website and it went un-answered) |
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On 2017-02-04, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:45:36 -0800, wrote: [ ... ] Greetings Bob, I have thought about having a reversing motor for tapping on a drill press many times. I was thinking that I would have a motor that turns CCW by default and turns CW with a foot switch. Then all that needs to be done to back off the tap is to step off of the switch. Now I may really do it. I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. Yes -- with the exception that changing belts is still necessary for high torque at low speeds, or for achieving top speed (if the combination of top belt speed and top VFD boost does not go too fast for the bearing in the mill. (Of course, with some mills, there is simply the variable speed crank on the pulleys. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 14:21:37 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 2:45:05 PM UTC-5, wrote: Greetings Bob, I have thought about having a reversing motor for tapping on a drill press many times. I was thinking that I would have a motor that turns CCW by default and turns CW with a foot switch. Then all that needs to be done to back off the tap is to step off of the switch. Now I may really do it. Eric 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 |
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On 4 Feb 2017 23:59:22 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote: On 2017-02-03, Bob La Londe wrote: I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Over all I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any over riding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. Its really quick for some types of job. Just make it so it is in a guard, so something falling, or a foot placed wrong won't start it while you are changing drill bits in the chuck. A quonset-hut shape bolted to a mounting plate for the switch would be good. Perhaps put it in series with the switch on the drill press head, so both have to be on to run the motor. Or a center-off switch with one position for motor on without the foot switch engaged, and in the other position, the motor waits for the foot switch. What I've done with my 1977 or so drill press is replace the motor with a three-phase one, with a small VFD on the side and three push buttons on the front. Two in guards for forward and reverse, and one with a big red cap for stop. (Oh yes, and a pot for speed.) The red STOP button is in the place easiest to reach, and I can even hit it with my nose to stop while both hands are occupied. :-) What I really like is to set the speed to barely turning, hit the FWD button while the tip of the bit is engaged, and then up the speed once it starts cutting. But -- there are times when I would like to have a foot switch, perhaps just for stop. Enjoy, DoN. My drill press has a toggle switch that connects either the regular switch or the foot switch. So even if the foot switch is left on the floor it won't energize the drill press if the toggle switch is in the regular position. The setup works great. Eric |
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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 |
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:33:25 -0800 (PST), "
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 Capacitor start single phase motors only need to slow to about 80% full speed before they can be reversed. With the tap drag this happens fast. I have done plenty of this on small single phase motor lathes. Eric |
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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 |
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"Martin Eastburn" wrote in message
... 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 If you are talking about a tapping head, they work just fine in drill presses too. I have two of them in small benchtop drill presses that I pretty much never take out. One almost always has a 10-32 spiral point tap in it, and the other a 1/4-20 spiral flute. They are HUGE time savers if you have to tap a bunch of holes. Adjust the clutch on a new tap so it doesn't quite slip tappping dry. Then always tap with a drop of Tap Magic and throw the tap away the first time it slips. Whoever first told me about them. Thank you. I am sure it was somebody in this group. They have saved hundreds if not thousands of hours, and a fair number of parts that I no longer have to worry about removing broken taps from. LOL. On mills another tool that is sometimes used is an extension-compression head. It doesn't auto reverse like a tapping head, but it does allow the tap to go in further or pull back a a little if the reversing operation isn't perfectly syncronized. |
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On 2017-02-06, Martin Eastburn wrote:
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. Sounds like a TapMatic, or a Procunier, or even a Buck/Ridgid Supreme VersaTapper tapping head. I have two sizes of the TapMatic, and one of the Buck for larger taps. They all use planetary gears to slow the speed during tapping, and speed up during backing out. I've fitted each with a MT-2 arbor to fit my drill press, but it will work just as well with a cylindrical shank in a collet or tool holder in the mill. Mind you -- none of these are particularly affordable, new. All of mine came from used sources, and the Buck one is out of production anyway. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
... On 2017-02-06, Martin Eastburn wrote: 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. Sounds like a TapMatic, or a Procunier, or even a Buck/Ridgid Supreme VersaTapper tapping head. I have two sizes of the TapMatic, and one of the Buck for larger taps. They all use planetary gears to slow the speed during tapping, and speed up during backing out. I've fitted each with a MT-2 arbor to fit my drill press, but it will work just as well with a cylindrical shank in a collet or tool holder in the mill. Mind you -- none of these are particularly affordable, new. No kidding. Even the small import starts at about 150-199. Still as machine tools go they are well worth that and then some if you tap a lot of holes. I tap so many 10-32 and 1/4-20 holes I hardly ever take my tapping heads off their respective drill presses. I'm actually thinking about setting up a drill press island in the shop. 6 bench tops around a table with my most common drills and taps all premounted and only removed to be replaced with the same size when they get dull. |
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On 2017-02-06, Bob La Londe wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message ... On 2017-02-06, Martin Eastburn wrote: Mills have a nice optional unit for tapping - auto-reverse on a set of [ ... ] Made just for taping. Sounds like a TapMatic, or a Procunier, or even a Buck/Ridgid Supreme VersaTapper tapping head. I have two sizes of the TapMatic, and one of the Buck for larger taps. [ ... ] Mind you -- none of these are particularly affordable, new. No kidding. Even the small import starts at about 150-199. Still as machine tools go they are well worth that and then some if you tap a lot of holes. I tap so many 10-32 and 1/4-20 holes I hardly ever take my tapping heads off their respective drill presses. I'm actually thinking about setting up a drill press island in the shop. 6 bench tops around a table with my most common drills and taps all premounted and only removed to be replaced with the same size when they get dull. Hmm ... have you looked at the Burgmaster turret drill press? Search eBay on: "Burgmaster turret drill press" and you will find a number, from quite reasonable prices to quite scary prices. :-) I learned about them because my #30 Tapmatic was marked as being for a Burgmaster turret drill press. The press has 6 spindles, so you can have it set up with three drills and three taping heads -- save a lot of space vs your island of six drill presses. :-) (Or, six tapping heads with drill-taps, if you are making through holes.) The first hit is auction # 172509444719 but it has only 12 hours to go, so it may be sold by the time you see this. If you are planning to buy six drill presses for your island, even one of the more expensive (and in better shape) ones might be worth your while. Note that each spindle has its own depth stop, which makes it good for drilling and tapping with a Tapmatic head. (I keep planning to get one, but have not yet. :-) Your island would make more sense if there are more workers in your shop than just you. The turret press is better for a single worker. Good Luck, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Yes that is them. About fist size and normally black.
I have a nice one that auto-reverse - haven't run it yet. Martin On 2/6/2017 10:45 AM, Bob La Londe wrote: "Martin Eastburn" wrote in message ... 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 If you are talking about a tapping head, they work just fine in drill presses too. I have two of them in small benchtop drill presses that I pretty much never take out. One almost always has a 10-32 spiral point tap in it, and the other a 1/4-20 spiral flute. They are HUGE time savers if you have to tap a bunch of holes. Adjust the clutch on a new tap so it doesn't quite slip tappping dry. Then always tap with a drop of Tap Magic and throw the tap away the first time it slips. Whoever first told me about them. Thank you. I am sure it was somebody in this group. They have saved hundreds if not thousands of hours, and a fair number of parts that I no longer have to worry about removing broken taps from. LOL. On mills another tool that is sometimes used is an extension-compression head. It doesn't auto reverse like a tapping head, but it does allow the tap to go in further or pull back a a little if the reversing operation isn't perfectly syncronized. |
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Yes - I have a TapMatic. good info Don.
On 2/6/2017 5:31 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote: On 2017-02-06, Martin Eastburn wrote: 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. Sounds like a TapMatic, or a Procunier, or even a Buck/Ridgid Supreme VersaTapper tapping head. I have two sizes of the TapMatic, and one of the Buck for larger taps. They all use planetary gears to slow the speed during tapping, and speed up during backing out. I've fitted each with a MT-2 arbor to fit my drill press, but it will work just as well with a cylindrical shank in a collet or tool holder in the mill. Mind you -- none of these are particularly affordable, new. All of mine came from used sources, and the Buck one is out of production anyway. :-) Enjoy, DoN. |
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Bob La Londe wrote:
I've been playing with a regular foot switch on my floor standing drill press. Overall I like it except that the work light isn't on except when I am standing on the switch. I can of course wire the foot switch into the leads to the motor, but I was wondering if there is any overriding reason not to have a foot switch on a drill press. It's really quick for some types of job. I walk with a cane, so I installed a footswitch about 15 years ago. That lets me work one handed, with the added feature that if something goes wrong just stepping back from the drill press will turn it off. Mine is wired in series with the rocker switch for the motor, and it is rated for 20A. This allows the light to be turned on, when it's needed. -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) The other thing I learned then was not to get my tie caught in that spinny thing on the left side of the lathe. -- In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. --Charles de Gaulle |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) The other thing I learned then was not to get my tie caught in that spinny thing on the left side of the lathe. Ties are only worn for weddings and funerals. :( -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:03:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) The other thing I learned then was not to get my tie caught in that spinny thing on the left side of the lathe. Ties are only worn for weddings and funerals. :( Then and now. The safety rules we were given in the '60s had last been updated in the '50s. -- In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. --Charles de Gaulle |
Drill Press Foot Switch
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:03:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) The other thing I learned then was not to get my tie caught in that spinny thing on the left side of the lathe. Ties are only worn for weddings and funerals. :( Then and now. The safety rules we were given in the '60s had last been updated in the '50s. I've only worn a tie about three times, since 1972. That was when I was in the Army. After that, it was for one wedding, and two funerals. Before you ask, it wasn't for the same people. The shop classes I took in the mid '60s stressed removing any loose clothing, before class started. No ties, sweaters or baggy long sleeve shirts were allowed. If a shirt was long sleeve, the cuffs had to fit tight, and be buttoned. This was due to the fact of the metalshop and woodshop teachers having been hired from factories. -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
Drill Press Foot Switch
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
... Larry Jaques wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:03:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: I ran the big Gorton mill at Gunners to tap the little handle we made for the height adjuster on the DP table. A knob on the VFD + an ON_OFF_ON switch controlled the speed and direction. That was sweet. My buddy Glenn has a VFD and speed knobs for his mill, too. It _sure_ as hell beats changing belts, the way I learned in 8th grade. At least you learned something, in the eighth grade! ;-) The other thing I learned then was not to get my tie caught in that spinny thing on the left side of the lathe. Ties are only worn for weddings and funerals. :( Then and now. The safety rules we were given in the '60s had last been updated in the '50s. I've only worn a tie about three times, since 1972. That was when I was in the Army. After that, it was for one wedding, and two funerals. Before you ask, it wasn't for the same people. The shop classes I took in the mid '60s stressed removing any loose clothing, before class started. No ties, sweaters or baggy long sleeve shirts were allowed. If a shirt was long sleeve, the cuffs had to fit tight, and be buttoned. This was due to the fact of the metalshop and woodshop teachers having been hired from factories. In the mid 70's I read an article that expressed surprise at the 'uniform' of a t shirt and jeans that had become standard for engineering in small high-tech startups, I think in defiance of IBM and Xerox. As recently as 10 years ago an article on Segway commented on the similar 'dress code' there. I never saw anyone imitate Dean, though. -jsw |
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