Anything new on foot pedal designs???

[jtybt]

This is a pic of the sewing machine foot pedal



This is a pix of the actuator lever at rest. Notice the short green, forked lever that swings the rheostat lever. This changed vertical pedal movement to the horizontal.



This is a pic of the rheostat lever when the pedal is depressed.



You can see, with relatively little pedal movement, quite a large sweep of the rheostat lever is made.


Anybody got an ideas how to convert this to a TIG pedal? I got no idea what the rating of the rheostat is. It's the movement that may be of interest.

I hope someone at Everlast can come up with an adaption that will make such a small pedal design available.

[performance]

You'd need to pretty much trash the pedal and use a 47 k pot and create a cradle that would slide onto the shaft for the arm to rid in. It looks as this is a multiple step, not a continously variable pedal.

[jtybt]

Yup, stepped design. Is there some kind of rheostat that can be placed in the position of the existing rheostat with the required rating?

If Everlast were to design a new pedal, a broader base would allow more movement and raising the base from 1 1/4" to 2" or more would still give you a very low profile. I bet you could sell thousands of these alone.