MAC Allister MIS 2500 stopped working

[Skyedriver]

Had a bad day what with on thing and another yesterday, including my trusty shredder/chipper dying on me.
Can't see any reset button or anything. Any suggestions, replaced the fuse in the plug.

[OutInTheShed]

Does the blade/motor revolve freely?

I have an ancient Alko chipper, I've had to replace the main switch and the motor capacitor. It's now sometimes playing up because the safety switch, which cuts power if the casing is open, doesn't always engage, because the casing is getting past its lose by date.

[Skyedriver]

Sorry, never got back to you. Yes blade disc rotates freely.
Will try and find time to pull the electrics apart. If only I knew what I was doing.

[Skyedriver]

Update:
Had time to strip this thing today.
By passed each part in turn, level switch, closure switch, on/off switch. Nothing.
Was about to blame the big white cylindrical thing but didn't know how to check that so was about to say "that's that". Reconnected everything up and weeeee, off it went. Must have been a loose or dirty contact somewhere that I've cleared by bouncing the thing around the garage floor. My guess is the closure switch, it must get quite a bit of stuff in it over the years.

Anyway can get chipping again if it ever stops raining. Scotland west coast.

[TorqueDirty]

Skyedriver said:

Update:


Anyway can get chipping again if it ever stops raining. Scotland west coast.

So sometime next May?

[Skyedriver]

TorqueDirty said:

Skyedriver said:

Update:


Anyway can get chipping again if it ever stops raining. Scotland west coast.

So sometime next May?

Optimistic.