Starting Problem w/ G0586 Jointer

[Tracy Purifoy]

I'm not much of a woodworker...and even less of an electrician. In August '05, I received and set up my 2hp, 220v, G0586 jointer. In August '06, I jointed about 20bf of red oak. Worked beautifully with beatiful results! In Summer of '07 I was jointing a pine 2x4. Half way through the cut, the 30amp breaker tripped!..and tripped everytime thereafter when the 'stop' button was released, but before pushing the 'on' button. I had a team of (3) professional electricians check the motor...capacitor was fine, but couldn't get juice through the windings. I had the motor rewound. Installed the motor tonight...and now the motor either just cranks up upon plugging in the jointer or can be jogged to a start by bumping the stop button....but it will not start by pushing the start button! It's as if power is bypassing the magnetic switch. I'm stumped! Any ideas guys? Thanks.

[Rod Sheridan]

Check to see if the contactor is jammed, or welded closed on one pole.

Regards, Rod.

[Tracy Purifoy]

Rod, you nailed it!...welded closed on one pole. Apparently when the motor windings shorted, the switch fused closed.

Me being slow to unpack and assemble, I've now got a four year old jointer with 45 minutes of runtime. Now that I've had the motor rewound, all I need now is a $55+shipping magnetic starter. Maybe I'll get 60 minutes this time!:)

BTW, Grizzly does not sell the actual replacement magnetic starter assembly for this jointer. The replacement offered has buttons on the box which require a little extra rewiring to utilize the jointers existing elevated start/stop box. Well, I'm off to cobble this thing back together!
Thanks.