Originally Posted by
JoeJr
... Try the simple things first. Just yesterday I was using a foot control to bench test a machine, first there was power then none...
I tried plugging it in again to see if the light worked. I guess I hadn't tried that after getting silence when I pushed the foot controller when I first got the machine. The light worked. So I tried the foot pedal again.
Uh, it runs. What the he—...wait, could I have not turned the power strip on the first time? What a dufus move!
(It sounds like a dinosaur grinding its teeth, so I'll have to try that 30w oil trick on the motor top bearing. I read a tip (here?) about asking for a bit of oil at an auto oil changer place. More to come.)