My Puck Lost Its Wire.

[nlalston]

Yesterday, I was in my shop - preparing for a carving.  I plugged my puck in, and began to move its body below the bit, for touch-off.  As soon as I moved the puck, its wire fell away from it.  I managed to get the carving done, by utilizing the manual method - but prefer the puck, especially when a job would require bit changes.  I'm going to try to get that little screwed-in wire connector out, from its underside, and reattach the wire.  

But, is there a better, touch-off puck/plate that I could get for my Iconic 8, that anyone might know about?  Or could it be as simple as just getting an aluminum block, and attaching the proper plug to it?

[grossmsj]

The wire for the puck attaches to a screw in the bottom of the puck. I believe mine has a loop on the wire that attaches to the screw. So you may be able to just strip back the wire and re-attach it to the screw?

For other reasons, I've been looking at touch off plates. From what I can tell, the Axiom is a pretty good value. You may also find the wiring for other pucks won't work easily with the Axiom. You'd need a normally open circuit (not normally closed) and there is just one wire going into the banana plug, then to the board via molex. The ground is through the spindle/frame conductivity back to the control board. When the bit touches the puck the circuit is closed.