lost my yellow plastic safety key!

You mean other than shorting the switch? No, sorry.

If you have a large local Sears, might try there -- many of their tools used a very similar if not the same "key".

No more complicated than they are, surely it wouldn't take much to make a dummy.

On another tack, I replaced them all w/ regular mag starters or better quality mechanical switches as they failed on what I had -- none of the originals lasted more than a couple years at best as I recall...

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Put in another switch.

Fri, Aug 17, 2007, 12:37pm (EDT-3) snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com (largecorp) doth claimeth: Hi, folks, I inherited a nice, big Delta belt/disc sander (like this one:

If you've not "seen" the safety key, how do you know it was yellow?

JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them.

- Picasso

Put a couple of popsicle sticks in the 2 slots.

Lost mine for a Craftsman bandsaw. Just glued up some plastic to fit. Been using it for only around 8 years now.

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (J T) wrote in news:26285-46C63054-407 @storefull-3336.bay.webtv.net:

Are you missing a Delta belt/disk sander, JOAT? ;-)

Puckdropper

Just be sure you wipe the wine off first!

:)

Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 3:24am (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Puckdropper) doth query thusly: Are you missing a Delta belt/disk sander, JOAT? ;-)

Nope, but willing to seriously consider buying one - if the safety key is yellow.

JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them.

- Picasso

Hah!!!

It brings back the picture...

Robert

Thanks for the suggestions (and the goads)--I think I'll try to rig up dummy (no comments, please!).

ds

What's REALLY funny is that the safety is there to prevent kids from hurting themselves on saws or other power tools. But the little, attractive, yellow thingie is just right for a little kid to be tempted to put into his mouth and choke on. I wonder if the CPSC has ever considered this...

Bob the Tomato

Bob the Tomato wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Yeah, and I'm going out to the shop now to get a couple fasteners in an old medicine bottle. Anyone's 5 year old still up? :-)

Puckdropper

replying to dpb, tangent wrote: Ebay has copies of two prong yellow button for sale 7 to 8 US. A bit high, so for a cheap alternate, any thing that will shape out to two prongs will work. I just twisted a length of 12 gauge electrical wire into a U. Works, but wire might be hazard in the switch body. Fix 2. If you notice, the Craftsman safety key measures out very close to the kiddie 120 VAC outlet protectors. Just trim the terminal width down to match the Craftsman key. The prongs are oblique to the key tab. Use a heating element (soldering iron tip) to get the base of the prong plastic and cant to angle.