Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
I did find a candidate switch, at Surplus Sales of Nebraska for $5.00 http://www.surplussales.com/switches/SWToggle-1.html (SWT) 8V10128 Microswitch SPDT toggle switch. 25 ma @ 20vDC. PC mount. ON-ON. 0.5" x 0.9"L Blue Paddle. Microswitch Co. was started by Burgess Battery (Freeport, IL) in 1930s

Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Electronic Surplus Cleveland https://www.electronicsurplus.com/ Honeywell switch, might work with your actuator https://www.electronicsurplus.com/honeywell-microswitch-8v1012b-m-switch-rocker-spdt-25ma-20vdc gb Sent from iPad Air

Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
quot;Charles" To: "cctalk digest" Subject: Looking for front panel switch At some earlier time, I'd either lost (or cannibalized for a PDP-8) one of the switches. Subminiature SPDT toggle switches are readily available from C&K and Mountain, but I cannot find one with

Re: Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Charles via cctalk
https://www.tedss.com/MT-SPDT-7101 Thanks :) It's only slightly different (the mounting pins look to be a bit closer together than my switches dated 1975, but I can drill a couple holes in the PC board, and swap my matching lever onto it.) Certainly a lot closer than the totally non-matching c

Re: Looking for front panel switch-- front panels

2019-10-05 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/5/2019 7:28 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have a matching switch they're not using? I have a spare black lever, but it's supposed to be blue for that nibble which would be even better ;) Thanks for any help. Surplus is not what it was 40 years ago. Several people are rehash

Re: Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-05 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Looks like a C&K model with a J60 type actuator and a PCB mount. Something like this? https://www.tedss.com/MT-SPDT-7101 C&K has a bewildering selection of actuators and mounting options, so I'm just venturing a wild guess. --Chuck

Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-05 Thread Charles via cctalk
This fall I decided to restore my first homebrewed computer that I made 40(!) years ago and still have... a 2 MHz 8080A, 1K of static RAM, a 1702A (256 byte) EPROM, cobbled up an S-100 connector for a VB-1B video card, an 8-bit I/O port that used an EBCDIC keyboard (ASCII translation table in th