Toggle switch housing for electric motors?

[wierdscience]

I'm sure someone here has seen or has one. Little drawn steel cover that houses a toggle switch and allows mounting it to the connection cover on the back of a NEMA 48/56 resilient frame electric motor.
I used to get them through Grainger, but it looks like they no longer offer them.

[Willy]

I know what you're looking for but other than a couple of the local electric motor rebuild shops I wouldn't know of a source for them.
Have you tried those?

[Illinoyance]

Check Grainger or McMaster Carr.

[wierdscience]

I know what you're looking for but other than a couple of the local electric motor rebuild shops I wouldn't know of a source for them.
Have you tried those?

Sadly the only small motor shop in the area closed down last year.

[wierdscience]

Check Grainger or McMaster Carr.

I had been buying them from Grainger, but looking today it seems they are no longer available.

[Willy]

I realize this would not be quite as tidy but would it be an option to use something like this possibly riveted to the end cover?

[reggie_obe]

Are these what you are looking for?
https://www.globalindustrial.com/g/m...uit-boxes-2563
A cheaper source must exist.

[wierdscience]

I found just what I am looking for....now I just need to find them for less than the cost of a motor

https://www.motionindustries.com/products/sku/06702074

[Bob Engelhardt]

I found just what I am looking for....now I just need to find them for less than the cost of a motor

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It's clear that you just gotta' make your own. Can't be that hard. $55!!

[metalmagpie]

After you buy from globalindustrial they will send you spam emails forever. That price must have been set by Barrabas himself. Although most of it is for the UL approved motor rated switch.

I am in the make it camp. How hard can it be?

metalmagpie

[reggie_obe]

It's clear that you just gotta' make your own. Can't be that hard. $55!!

Sure just make your own stamping dies, buy a suitably sized OBI press. Done!

[Willy]

Sure just make your own stamping dies, buy a suitably sized OBI press. Done!

Some sheet metal, cut to appropriate size, tig together, drill for screw mount tabs...done.

[wierdscience]

Interesting that GE has the same kit in their catalog, even the same part number, but at half the list price. I wonder who the vendor might be?

[Paul Alciatore]

Between $40 and $109 for a metal box????? And people actually pay that???

And I did not see a single switch included in those prices: JUST THE BOXES!

How do I buy stock in Global Industrial?

Are these what you are looking for?
https://www.globalindustrial.com/g/m...uit-boxes-2563
A cheaper source must exist.

[oxford]

Between $40 and $109 for a metal box????? And people actually pay that???

And I did not see a single switch included in those prices: JUST THE BOXES!

How do I buy stock in Global Industrial?

I have to agree, I am not a complete cheap f&@k but the prices I’ve seen in this thread seem a little ridiculous for a sheet metal box and toggle switch
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FWIW, years ago I did by an exhaust fan from global industrial and it was a very decent price at the time.