Did you know about relays? I didn't. Turns out some don't like being turned sideways. Like the one on this used Craftsman sander I bought to turn into an edge sander.
Bought it used for 250, then built a dedicated workstation around it. Then it started being weird, then started popping breakers like mad. Turns out the relay blew, which blew the capacitor, which burned the motor windings.
To the tune of 672$ to repair. We could have bought another used machine, had it rewired to run in reverse and checked for a compatible relay, but it wouldn't have been much less and would have required rebuilding the station.
An expensive lesson. What really stings, is that had I known about relays, I could have opened the bottom plate and taken 5 minutes to rotate the relay 90* and saved a pretty pile.
Live and learn, for 922$!
Anyway, in case anyone else has the bright idea to do this (which I recommend, it's an absolutely wonderful shop machine, so so very useful, which is why we rebuilt it at such cost), get the relays checked..
