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Marc Patry,
Assuming that what you are using is, in fact, an electric uncapping
knife:
I use and like an electric uncapping knife in a small operation. I made
a foot switch for the knife so that it only is heated when a foot is on the
switch. When the knife is not uncapping, it is not being heated. The
knife stays clean.
The switch is a push/on release/off, square-button, Radio Shack
switch mounted in a hole drilled in the side of an electrical outlet box.
The outlet box is mounted at the end of a board. A foot placed on the box
activates the switch. Beside the outlet box is a wooden block foot rest,
also fastened to the board, so that a foot placed on the foot rest
also rests on the outlet box and switch. The outlet box also has an
outlet in it; the knife plugs into the outlet box in a direction parallel
to the floor. A three-wire, grounded, power cord from a discarded
refrigerator/washing machine kind of appliance powers the outlet box. Be
sure to ground the outlet and the outlet box.
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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