Adding a ring light to a 1981 Draper Tools PD-16 'Drilling Machine' 1981 Mascot Tools (Floor Standing Pillar Drill)

Just hand paint it afterwards - it will be hidden & glued / screwed in to the plastic adapter, so the finish there is not really important.

Thanks, working on that.

I'm really struggling to implement the design, I have mocked up the parts of the wiring in the hope someone can describe what else I need to do/include or can annotate the following image:

I have added a diagram for the button, including behaviour of pressing each part. The idea is pressing I will turn the light on constantly, pressing II will turn the light on when the motor is active and O will turn off the light completely regardless of motor state.

Lamp neutral goes to incoming mains neutral.

Lamp live to light switch common.

One of the side contacts on the light switch goes to incoming mains live; that ON regardless of motor state.

The other side contact goes to motor live, eg. at the overload; in that position, the light comes on when the motor is on.

Yeeeeeeeeeees, thank you! It works in my mockup, so it's time to finalise.

Progress






Still quite a lot of preparation work before fitting to drill press, very pleased so far.