Foot pedal for the machine. Buy or do it yourself
I have been using a homemade foot pedal for several years now. She mainly works with a jigsaw, but sometimes I switch it to a drill, since it is very easy to do this.
I made this pedal in less than an hour. Components for it were found in the workshop and did not have to buy anything.
As a button, I used a micro switch from a broken microwave oven. There are usually several such switches and they are designed for a load of 16A.
The homemade pedal device is pretty simple. A bar with a slot for installing the switch, plywood on the bottom and plywood as a button.
I connected the micro switch to the break in the wire, installed it in the slot of the bar, fixed it with a nail, which I inserted into the bar and into the hole of the switch, and screwed the bottom of the plywood from below
The power button is also made of plywood. The micro switch is installed closer to one edge of the pedal, and the button is fixed on the other edge through a small gasket.
This gasket was selected so as to barely touch the micro switch button and turn it on with a slight pressure on the plywood.
The device of a homemade foot pedal can be clearly seen in the video clip.
You can also buy a similar pedal. I recently found such a pedal on Aliexpress.
The case is plastic, inside is the same micro switch, only 10 A. Stroke for switching on approx. 15 mm. (12mm more than my DIY pedal). The wire going to the pedal is 15 cm. The cost is low. Is the delivery paid. More photos and description can be found link.
The pedal looks good, but it turns out that this is part of the constructor. That is, the product is not final. You need to lengthen the wire and connect it either directly to the machine, or, as in my case, an outlet, a plug, a wire.
It turns out that if you already have something to make a foot pedal from at hand and you don't want to wait for the parcel to arrive, then it's easier to do everything yourself.
Well, if you want the pedal to look good, all the parts match in appearance, then of course you can also buy a pedal as one of the accessories for solving the problem of using a foot switch on a power tool.
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