Hi all,

Thanks to all who replied re the Kew steam cleaner with no run.

It turns out it /was/ some sort of over temp or similar cutout in the
motor that had gone o/c and was stopping the main motor-run contactor
from pulling in.

Luckily he also located a second hand identical cleaner today (and
bought a multimeter) and was able to check said issue out on that to
prove the concept before repairing the broken unit with a plain wire
link (for now).

The cherry on the cake is that both units appear to be nearly
identical so he now has a full set of working and tested spares, or
can do twice the work while they both run ok. ;-)

He said he will get a spare main switch in any case as we have now got
the proper code and I don't fancy taking one apart (no, that was easy
.... putting it back together again!) again! Mind you, now we have
worked out how to order and reassemble all 9 cam disks without the
spring loaded contacts flying over your shoulder it's not quite so
bad! ;-)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5772409/Kew%...220-642720.pdf

You might without that diagram you / one could easily 'assume' (if you
weren't used to such things) that connections 11-12 were o/c because
that's what you would read at all the stop positions (because it only
actions between 30 and 60 degrees).

Cheers, T i m