CWF? Interesting you mention mini micro switches I needed to source a couple to replace some. mouser, Digikey, and Allied failed me in searching for them. I found them by searching manufacturers' sites, and found a perfect match, dropped the part number on the mouser site, and the part popped up for a very reasonable price.
Have fun with your deck, but not too much each day. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] (818)324-7573 "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/9/25 12:23, jrmitchellj wrote: > > Glad that worked out! > > > > I am 20 years behind you. Just retired at the end of September. Then the > > company begged me to come back for one day a week to keep all of the old > > video and audio machines working, as none of the engineering staff know > how > > to do component level troubleshooting. I warned them when they hired me > > that they should hire some young talent that I could train. They did > not. > I was lucky, gave them notice about 2 years ahead, they let me hire & > train the best tech I'd had over the years. He's not the tech I was, > but he spent quite a bit of time watching me pull rabbits out of an > empty hat. And he has now survived 22 years in my old chair. > > Gene, I still can learn a lot from you, so please keep going! > And I appreciate the opportunity to relate some of the unusual things I > have done. Furinstance, ferrites are unusual critters, some of the most > efficient have a curie temp below the 100C mark and if they are > magnetized when that temperature is exceeded, they go austenitic, and as > far as a choke or transformer are concerned, they may as well be so much > air. And they stay that way when cooled off again until they've had the > factory heat treatment redone. I've troubleshot to find that 3 times > since I quit school and started fixing tv's for tobacco money in '47. > That almost bankrupted HP in the late 80's-early '90's. By pure > serendipity, I've found myself involved in several things, like the tv > cameras on the Navy's Trieste when it made its only trip to the bottom > of the mohole in '59 or '60. Outside water pressure at the bottom is > nearly 18,000 psi. And at that pressure, water IS compressible, around 10%. > > As it turns out, i not only need to replace the decade+ old mini-micro > switches I tally'd the gear shift knob with, it appears (i have numerous > configs for various jobs) that I copied the wrong one because I had > swapped the 2 pwmgens available because the second one missed a feature > I tried to use with a servo motor on a BS-1 rotary table. Since designed > a much more usable A axis, can turn 500 rpm. So I need to reswap the > pwmgen's in this config because its the only one that runs my poop chute > camera I sometimes hang on a bracket for cam-aligns use. But today I've > been busier than a one armed paper hanger, had the electric folks put a > fresh battery, changed the oil, new plugs and filters in my 20kw kohler > that left me in the dark for 2 hours friday nite. That also wiped out > the little ups that runs the pi that runs my biggest lathe. No biggie as > it had been hanging there for a decade. Got a slightly better one > ordered. Battery was well over a decade old. And I've a couple handymen > working on the front deck, replacing rotten 2x4's in the ramp I made for > the wifes wheel chair, about 12 yo untreated wall studs. CWF falls off > in 6 months. A good woman but she passed from COPD nearly 5 years ago. > Had her for 31 good years. And refitting the storm door a bit more mouse > proof. Busy day, back says its 4 hours past quitting time, but not all > done yet. I'll be a week getting all the garage working again at my > pace That and 10 gallons of Aussie "natural" deck stain to replace the > vanishing CWF. Big deck. > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > [email protected] > > (818)324-7573 > Take care of #1. > > "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three > > decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded > > good." > > > > -- Thomas Sowell > Another very wise man. > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
