Startrite 165 fettle

[9fingers]

Depends on what you mean about off button sensitivity.
If the button is stiff, then you should be able to clean and lightly lubricate the knob itself.
If the problem is too much travel before it turns off then you might be able to fit a small spacer behind the button to make it act with a smaller travel.
Additional stop switches, with normally closed contacts can be wired in series with the stop switch contacts inside the MEM switch box.
This could include a "sensitive" switch more to your taste and/or fitted with a maskery paddle if you wish.

Bob

 

[Lurker]

Thanks Bob,
I will have a rootle inside the switch.

 

[Lurker]

Well I’ve had a rootle.
The switch is excellent quality so I will stick with it.

Although I had a quick look see in there, before I originally plugged it in, I have rewired the earth. There wasn’t anything really wrong with it, but now it’s spot on to my satisfaction.
The actual stiffness is in the off switch mechanism itself and in reality is perfectly fine, I just want it closer to a hair trigger

So plan B is some sort of paddle.
There is plenty of clearance to add a couple of clinch nuts to the switch metal body, so I need to have a cogitate about a design.

Something like this

https://www.axminstertools.com/kedu-kjd ... 1ph-102532

 

[Lurker]

Quite chuffed with how well this works.
The hinges were much modified from aluminium window stays, fixed to the box with nutserts.
Plastic sheet was skip dived.
The extra nutsert was the CUF at work

 

[Lurker]

I’m adding this incase someone stumbles across the thread sometime in the future.

You will see that I fitted a couple of Z24 belts; some weeks later with maybe 5 minutes total run time the belts were slipping, I guess that they had bedded in. There wasn’t enough adjustments to compensate.

Today I received some Z23 belts from bearing boys, they were a slight struggle to get on the pulleys, but clearly are the one this machine uses.