How to Wire a Foot Switch to the Beaumont Disc Grinder

Nice clear pictures and captions Ed. I also appreciate the peek inside of your frame handle.

Thanks for taking the time, Craig
 
Cool Ed, I got sidetracked on your frame handle layout. Very nice and clear explanation of something that was kind of hard for me to get. I drove myself crazy for a while with "How the hell do they get that gaurd over the fat assed end of the tang? You can't slide it on from the point, it's forged with a dropped edge. Is it a two piece guard? How am I supposed to do THAT!" lol. Seriously, that fairly small threaded tang end has good strength though? And do you leave the guard press fit but not soldered for full take-down on all of these? Could you oil the tang to resist adhesion and glass-bed it for added stability or is that totally unnecessary? Sorry about the barrage of questions, perhaps I should have e-mailed them to you instead...
 
I make those knives as if they are a "take-down", but they are always "glued up" before they leave the shop. Let me explain....

I have done a number of true "take-downs" in the past, and each has come back to haunt me at a later time. By that I mean that the customer did something that either required me to repair or replace parts of the knife.
One individual used pliers to tighten the butt nut, and in the process stripped the threads on the tang, and because the hardware was blued, destroyed the finish on the butt cap and the butt nut. Another took the guard on and off so many times that he "wallowed" out the hole in the guard, so that it no longer fit tightly.....and there are a couple of others that we won't even talk about.

The moral of the story is this: If you make a "take down", glue the whole thing up before you send it to the customer! Otherwise, you WILL see that knife again, and it won't be a pleasant thing.

If someone asks me to make a "take down", one of two things happens. It either gets glued completely up, prior to shipping, or the customer understands fully that I will not warranty the knife in any way due to "operator error" if they decide to take it apart and put it back together.
 
I would be too nervous about stepping on it or something while leaning over and having it fling something across the shop.
 
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