Model 397.1949 help
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Oregon Dave
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It's a craftsman; you should be able to access the parts diagram/list on your dd/phone - ponder how your grandfather would have approached this situation.
RTM
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The Craftsman OEM list says that was made by Delco products or Paramount/alllegretti & company who continue the Delco design.
If you turn it over and look at the switch you can see if it's a single pole where it switches only one wire or a double pole where it switches both wires. If you then look for a switch that can handle a motor of that capacity listed on your name plate you should be good to go. Can't see enough of your switch to tell how that's mounted, but a rectangular panel seems safe.
Since it's set up for 115 or 230 volt you should probably get a double pole switch regardless of which voltage you are running.
The vintage machinery site
Shows a manual with parts list
And part #31 looks like your switch.
If you Google that part number, an early result brings you back to GJ, (any good tool search brings you back here), where someone claims to have fixed his switch, which may save you from going nuts trying to replace it.
www.garagejournal.com
Other links may tell you how others replaced it
It's amazing what you can find between bites of an apple
If you turn it over and look at the switch you can see if it's a single pole where it switches only one wire or a double pole where it switches both wires. If you then look for a switch that can handle a motor of that capacity listed on your name plate you should be good to go. Can't see enough of your switch to tell how that's mounted, but a rectangular panel seems safe.
Since it's set up for 115 or 230 volt you should probably get a double pole switch regardless of which voltage you are running.
The vintage machinery site
Shows a manual with parts list
And part #31 looks like your switch.
If you Google that part number, an early result brings you back to GJ, (any good tool search brings you back here), where someone claims to have fixed his switch, which may save you from going nuts trying to replace it.
Craftsman block grinder clean-up and switch repair.
I posted my recent purchase to the block grinder thread but decided to post here as well, mostly to show the switch (PN 4984992) repair as I searched for similar repairs but only found one, and in that one the picture links were broken. Hopefully this will help somebody with a similar issue in...
www.garagejournal.com
Other links may tell you how others replaced it
It's amazing what you can find between bites of an apple
Here is a picture of what I have left this is how I found it.The Craftsman OEM list says that was made by Delco products or Paramount/alllegretti & company who continue the Delco design.
If you turn it over and look at the switch you can see if it's a single pole where it switches only one wire or a double pole where it switches both wires. If you then look for a switch that can handle a motor of that capacity listed on your name plate you should be good to go. Can't see enough of your switch to tell how that's mounted, but a rectangular panel seems safe.
Since it's set up for 115 or 230 volt you should probably get a double pole switch regardless of which voltage you are running.
The vintage machinery site
Shows a manual with parts list
And part #31 looks like your switch.
If you Google that part number, an early result brings you back to GJ, (any good tool search brings you back here), where someone claims to have fixed his switch, which may save you from going nuts trying to replace it.
Craftsman block grinder clean-up and switch repair.
I posted my recent purchase to the block grinder thread but decided to post here as well, mostly to show the switch (PN 4984992) repair as I searched for similar repairs but only found one, and in that one the picture links were broken. Hopefully this will help somebody with a similar issue in...
Other links may tell you how others replaced it
It's amazing what you can find between bites of an apple
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FrankLee
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What are the dimensions of the switch opening on the center band?
RTM
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That first pic looks like 3 wires going into the switch. Im guessing here, but hopefully an expert will step in. Fig 6 in the manual shows that as a 115v set up, guessing one line goes to the start windings, the other the run windings.
The link to the Google results above (from green tractor). https://www.greentractortalk.com/th...1248&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-3701248
says that it's just a single pole switch w two terminals on one side for spade connection, so in theory you you would wire all three wires together, plug it in and run, if the start relay works ok.
Also links to a different grinder manual with a wiring diagram which supposedly uses the same switch. Probably similar generation, but only 1/3HP vs your 1/2HP.
FrankLee
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This may help.
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CM Block Grinder power switch - replacements
Jan. 21 2018 - Because of PhotoBucket'c change in 3-rd party hosting, this thread has been edited to post pictures directly. Therefore, the first post has been split and continued begning in post #22 , below. The Craftsman vintage grinders with Block-style-motors have a number of different...
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35mmx18mm
RTM
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Uh oh, does this mean you are in a land that speaks metric? Our local vendors may not work if so.
Or just a precise measurer?