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This is a great extra feature for my older model, one-speed scrollsaw. There is a sticker on the box that says "2-step on/off" ... and at first I thought I bought the wrong thing. I had wanted the kind that you press your foot on to operate, and then it automatically turns off when you release the foot pressure. THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF FOOTSWITCH. (I think that's called a deadman switch). But, lucky for me ... I like this one better. I prefer to work standing up and be able to move around a little for a better view or grip ... which means I can't always keep my foot on the pedal.

This is the switch where you step on it once to turn it on, and it stays on. You have to click it again, in order to turn the power off. As it turned out, this works better for me. Either way, you can turn it on or off and keep your hands on your woodwork.

It would be great if I could get a variable speed foot switch that would allow me to speed up or slow down the blade as I worked. My Scrollsaw is a Delta 40-530, which has only one speed, which is pretty dang fast. (The saw is over 10 years old. 1/10 HP, 120 volts, 1.8 Amps). If anyone knows if a variable switch would allow me to slow the speed down, the way a sewing machine pedal works, I would really appreciate your advice in the comments. Thanks!

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I have just returned this product. The switch was working well until, after less than a month of use, it quit. I took the unit apart and found that a tiny REALLY TINY white piece of plastic was what connected the top of the foot switch to the electrical device. It was the trigger that make the switch go on and off. That pice of plastic had broke. IF they had made the switch with a metal piece instead of plastic the thing might have lasted a lifetime. This will forever be a mystery to me. Why would a designer make a critical part that will take stress both small and plastic? Why not increase the diameter of the part (in this case very easy to do) and make it out of something that will last? The plastic part was about 1/16 of an inch square, maybe less. Why? A 1/4 inch piece of good plastic would probably last 10 years. A 1/4 inch piece of quality metal would last forever. What would that cost? Maybe another dollar or two max? Incredible.

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The light construction of these switches is their Achilles heel. The press on press off version by design has the user tromping on the switch as opposed to merely pressing it. The switch is very easy to break. At great idea but it needs to be redesigned.

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This is a simple review because it's a simple product. You plug any standard electrical plug (either grounded or not) into this pedal, and then plug the pedal's cord into the wall, and when you step on the pedal it turns your device on or off. It's perfect and I've used it for all sorts of projects. I think it was made for a Bridgeport machine or some other machine-shop device, but it works great for just about anything.

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The product is a little light weight and can be kicked around easy. All I did to solve the problem was screw a peice of 1x4 to be bottom. I'm useing to control my shop vac. while hooked up to my chop saw.