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Title: Found a switch
Post by: Sifo on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:54:09: Not directly keyboard related but this is the subforum for talking about switches so...

Found this today while working in the shop, was restoring a Willys M38!

(http://i.imgur.com/KecW0DM.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/iQrDVaT.jpg)

Conveniently broken shell (found it like this) for educational purposes on how the switch works :P But I wonder who made it?

(http://i.imgur.com/WdlkhI6.jpg)

Wew Cherry.

The wires before I cut them were connected to a female XLR connector. I'm guessing it was for the communications system, mic maybe? Switch could be for PTT o_o

Everything leads me back to GH.
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: IPT on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:56:48: you need a mani/pedi
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Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:57:05: .
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: Sifo on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:57:51: Can't help that I bite my nails ^_^
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: IPT on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:58:39: Quote from: Sifo on Tue, 21 October 2014, 15:57:51
Can't help that I bite my nails ^_^

are you 12? lol (i mean this in the nicest way possible and not making fun of you....)
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: Sifo on Tue, 21 October 2014, 16:02:47: I tend to just unconsciously do it while watching something (so in this case it was during league of lesbians watching china get rekt)

Sometimes it gets pretty bad (blood etc) but I don't really care
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: CPTBadAss on Tue, 21 October 2014, 16:24:00: Sifo are you trying to say Cherry literally won the war for the United States?
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: Sifo on Tue, 21 October 2014, 16:33:08: Quote from: CPTBadAss on Tue, 21 October 2014, 16:24:00
Sifo are you trying to say Cherry literally won the war for the United States?

Cherry literally killed hitler by going back in time
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: LouisHjelmslev on Wed, 22 October 2014, 22:10:47: my nails hurt now... no nerves, but they still hurt :(
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: frosty on Wed, 22 October 2014, 22:48:27: Is there a way to test whether this switch works?
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 22 October 2014, 22:51:21: Hey, you should come restore all my Willys Jeeps. kthnx

Also, cool switch. What year is the truck from?
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: Sifo on Thu, 23 October 2014, 18:46:06: Quote from: frosty on Wed, 22 October 2014, 22:48:27
Is there a way to test whether this switch works?

I mean, I could hook it up to something and see. I think it should still work o_O

Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 22 October 2014, 22:51:21
Hey, you should come restore all my Willys Jeeps. kthnx

Also, cool switch. What year is the truck from?

I'll restore for keyboards.

I think the truck was early 50s? I've forgotten. They're pretty neat though.
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: RickyJ on Thu, 23 October 2014, 21:45:35: I've come across plenty of Alps switches at work, more so in older Japanese cars than in the VW/Audi I spend 95% of my days with though (but I have seen a few there too).
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: frosty on Thu, 23 October 2014, 22:19:25: The switch looks very cool imo hehe
Title: Re: Found a switch
Post by: ConscienceDrop on Thu, 23 October 2014, 22:23:29: neat.

i always wonder about the different random switch designs a lot of these companies put out in the past