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Result! Great service from scraggy-cat spares on Ebay. Received and fitted new capacitor today and all working fine again. Thanks to all of you for your help and advice - sure I will be back again!

So grateful for all your advice. Wires were just the two to the capacitor. Ordered new one as precaution - only £5 delivered so worth it as precaution I think. Hopefully will be back in business once it arrives!

Hi Thanks for advice have ordered capacitor and will let you know how it goes once I get it fitted. Looking forward to getting it working again!

Hi Got it apart ok but wiring to capacitor is burned out for some reason - do I simply repair wiring or is there likely to be another problem?

Had prompt and helpful response from Mike at Inca - thanks for link. Will let you know how I get on! Inca Machines ([email protected]) To:you Details The capacitor is behind the fan, you need to remove the fan cover, the fan and then metal housing. Please take care when removing old...

No nothing at all

Thanks for your help. Is the capacitor likely to be situated within the switch assembly on this motor? Pic attached

Thanks for prompt response. Not sure where capacitor situated on this motor (no obvious one unless in switch unit). Not 3 phase even tried swapping live / neutral connections in plug with same result.

Switched on my bandsawsaw and some odd noises but ran fine. Decided to change blade and could not get it to set and realised motor was running in reverse direction. Starts fine and runs well without blade but cannot get it to run in correct direction. Leroy Somer motor D29P . Machine is 1980's...