Toggle switch housing for electric motors?

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Having a good carbide insert that performs well in stainless helps greatly. These can occasionally be found on Ebay for less, but they are worth the money...

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Actually somebody did. Scaled down to fit a Unimat/Sherline/Taig lathe, but the same principle of design.

https://www.homemadetools.net/...

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I would use that if I could, but these motors are 48 frame resilient mount motors, so the wiring connection happens under a Kidney shaped sheetmetal...

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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?

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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....

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

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For sizes 1/4" on down I have used that square brass tubing from K&N hobby metals. I find one size to fit the tap shank and then the next larger...

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

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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...

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Did up a new driveshaft for the hydraulic pump on a friends crane truck. Normally there is something left of the old shaft that can be reused. Not this...

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Good score, those small lifts are handy. I've used this guy for parts quite a bit- https://www.ebay.com/str/swiftforkliftparts. No affiliation,just a...

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Do the same as in your first photo, but add a Vee block to act as a bearing for the sphere to rotate in.

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Quite possibly, the first job I used them on was installing about a hundred conduit clips in a metal building....

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I haven't tried the cheapos yet, but have used the DeWalt brand quite a bit. I use them in a 1/4 cordless impact driver, the trick is not using them on...

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This looks interesting Power plant?...

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From what I have seen it either is new, or very, very little used....

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Honestly I'm still not sure, I haven't had enough time to look at it since it landed in the shop. Both the lathe and the DRO look to hail from about 1985ish,...

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Little bit of an update, still looking for a manual for it, but it appears to have been made by the Spanish company Pinacho which later merged with Metosa-...

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The bearing inserts will carry the load just fine, however the grey iron housings won't. A trick I use to overcome that, is to use stainless flange bearings-...

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Now that's interesting...