Sep2019...my Kobalt wall mount vac (12 years old) died a few days ago. I found your video and I popped off the switch first and it was burned just like this one. $3.99 switch from ACE and boom, back in business......thanks
You can use a Leviton 3-way light switch for a Shop Vac. They sell them at Home Depot. They have 4 sides. You can hook all 4 of Shop Vac's wires on them.
10:56 there are two black phillip's head screws...I'm doing the same with my same model vac right now. BTW, explain why the orientation of a single throw switch matters in this application? I can understand a home wall light switch (convention is up/on, down/off). Thanks for the video.
I'm thinking you are acting like you are winging it, and that you really know exactly what you are doing at all time ???? anyway thanks for the video post, it might very well save big bucks.
Its a thermal fuse, the aluminum link melts when its too high a load. Most appliances have one in one way or another, my coffee grinder quit because of that, I bypassed it and voila' fixed.
Sep2019...my Kobalt wall mount vac (12 years old) died a few days ago. I found your video and I popped off the switch first and it was burned just like this one. $3.99 switch from ACE and boom, back in business......thanks
You can use a Leviton 3-way light switch for a Shop Vac. They sell them at Home Depot. They have 4 sides. You can hook all 4 of Shop Vac's wires on them.
Just need a dual pole switch.
I'd rather just get a generic rocker switch and not have a woodscrew hackjob death trap
10:56 there are two black phillip's head screws...I'm doing the same with my same model vac right now. BTW, explain why the orientation of a single throw switch matters in this application? I can understand a home wall light switch (convention is up/on, down/off). Thanks for the video.
Orientation only matters for the on/off printed on outside
u should do a shop tour!
I'm thinking you are acting like you are winging it, and that you really know exactly what you are doing at all time ???? anyway thanks for the video post, it might very well save big bucks.
I know what am doing without knowing exactly if that makes sense!
Wonder why the switch would burn without throwing a breaker? Maybe got trash in the terminals i guess.
Its a thermal fuse, the aluminum link melts when its too high a load. Most appliances have one in one way or another, my coffee grinder quit because of that, I bypassed it and voila' fixed.
Show us your shop its cool
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it's called a thermal fuse
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