Medding

Hi folks, new to group , im a tinkerer & l9ve restoration of old machines , done a few progress & fobco piller & bench drills so far , I'm in the process of restoring a meddings bench drill the switch gear was none standard but managed to find the correct one now , ( single & three ph) but I'm struggling to find the switch lever , Its 3/16th square fitting , I'm not sure how to upload pic on here, but any help would be much appreciated

Does the switch lever look like this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185694535429

A common switch on those drills was made by Santon, so search for 'santon switch'.

The shape of the lever in the one above is called a 'chicken head knob' so that might be a useful search term. Smaller versions were used on old guitar amplifiers.

Hi thanks for the reply,unfortunately not same,

It's thishttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125743546480?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=6WbfEJVgSNe&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=CR9ZiEiIRVq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Hope that works , I'm hopless with tech !

I have the same switch on mine, you could contact Meddings as they do have some 'old' spares but they're not cheap!

Are you looking for the switch or the knob?

The knob, or lever . Its a female square 3/16th fitting

I may have one. I'll look tomorrow.

That is really good of you , thanks,

To post pictures See here

regards

Thank you so much !

This is the switch , I'm trying to source the knob/ lever for it .thanks .

Note:

It might be useful if a Moderator would change the Subject line

Meddling Meddings

MichaelG.

Only if it is changed to Meddling with a Meddings.

It would fit the style of many article headlines in the published monthly.

I had a look today.

It's not in my big box of switches. I know I have one somewhere but I can't think where else it could be. Sorry.

Robert.

No problem , sure I'll find one somwhere , thanks for taking the time to try & help, much appreciated.