this is where i get all these little scraps of metal and i hold on to these because these
happen to be very handy i just used one in a recent video where i made a
tool to hold the end of my flashlight so i could get the switch end off
and i just used two of these scraps of metal here
and they're just the perfect size for that sort of thing let's give it a cut here
yeah let's see if i can get my coolant flowing here i've been having trouble with my coolant pump
switch for the coolant pump which is right down there i think that switch has been acting up
and it's not turning the coolant on i got to do a bunch of metal cutting so i think what i might do
is short that switch out put a jumper in there for now so i've been having trouble
with my coolant pump on this uh grizzly 7 by 12 horizontal vertical band saw and the pump is just
kind of intermittent and i always assumed it was the switch because i could
jiggle the switch on and off and it would kick on and then it would work for a while and then
it stopped working and recently it stopped working so you're just to test it out i put a jumper there
to bypass the switch and just make the pump run all the time and again it ran for a while
and then now it doesn't run so then i was thinking it might be my coolant filter was clogged up so i
cleaned it out it was a little bit plugged but i can blow air through here now still no
coolant flow and then let me show you what i found here because some of the other things i
checked i was a little low on coolant so i added coolant up and you can see it's it's now up to
the level of the strainer basket and what i found was the uh motor start capacitor
is behind that little box there see i've got my meter down there in the bottom corner and i
just connected it up to the start capacitor 1.6 microfarads if we can get that in the picture
it's supposed to be four microfarads i guess that's about 40 of its rated value so i imagine
that starting capacitor is kind of weak i don't see that it's bulged out or anything it looks
okay but i think it's just on the weak side so i went and ordered a couple off of amazon they'll be
here in two days okay it's a little bit of a bonds job but i had an 80 microfarad motor run capacitor
and i hooked it up where the four microfarad was and the motor does seem to start okay here we go
we've got coolant flowing right there and coming out the blade guide i think it's just been the
flaky start capacitor all along that's been my problem okay youtube got the uh new start
capacitor in there so pretty amazing 4 30 on a saturday afternoon i found the old capacitor
was bad so i found a listing on amazon put in an order they said it would arrive monday by 10 p.m
late monday so then i got an email notice this morning this is sunday morning that it would be
out for early delivery and about noon on sunday that showed up so yeah less than
24 hours later and i have a start capacitor in there let me kick on the power here
now there we go it's working yeah that's pretty good got the coolant pump working again
i figured i would get a set of two of them just so that i have one on hand you
know i don't know how long these will last this original one lasted probably about 15
years so hopefully these will last quite a while but i'm just gonna keep this in my bag
of spare parts that i keep around for the saw yeah and that capacitor does fit inside
all i did was i cut off the little screw mounting tab there to kind of reduce the profile and then
it it just fits right in under the cover so i think i'm good to go all buttoned up and
should be good for another 15 years so there's the shaft under there and that's what i saw it
wasn't spinning so i knew the it was the motor and not the pump being jammed up the eighth horsepower
coolant pump yeah that's working again so yeah that's the part i got there two of those for about
ten dollars and they arrived within 24 hours can't beat that and yeah i did test the capacitor it
tested just a little over four microfarads so that seems to do the trick but yeah i'll put a link to
that part in the video description if you need to get one of those and as always thanks for watching