[Elecraft] Serious foot switches

[ai2n at twcny.rr.com]

Get a Yamaha sustain pedal designed for use with an electronic keyboard.  STURDY, switches from NO to NC contacts as needed.  I screwed mine to a piece of plywood so my heel holds it in place.

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%25253D392%252526CTID%25253D204600,00.html

73, Redd - AI2N

---- WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at flash.net> wrote: 
> My foot switch that I bought around 1990 at a ham fest
> and had stood up to thousands of contacts in many
> phone contests has only the identifying sticker "Made
> in Taiwan"
> 
> Cookie, K5EWJ
> 
> --- Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Bill W5WVO wrote:
> > > 
> > >  I've had to repair my Heil foot switch numerous
> > times. 
> > > The little "e" ring that holds the pivot axle in
> > has a habit of coming off 
> > > spontaneously (I completely lost it a while back)
> > > 
> > Your description does not match the pivot hardware
> > in my two Heil foot
> > switches.  So it seems that Heil has gone through a
> > few designs of the pivot
> > mechanism.
> > 
> > The pivot mechanism in my foot switches consists
> > entirely of a single pivot
> > screw that is threaded on the end with an unthreaded
> > shoulder up toward the
> > screw head.  So the pivot screw becomes fixed with
> > the inner half of the
> > (threaded) clamshell and rotates freely around the
> > outer half of the
> > (unthreaded) clamshell.  The threads eventually fail
> > and the pivot screws
> > keeps loosening and falling out.  The kludge fix is
> > to discard the pivot
> > screws, drill out the holes, and use a single long
> > machine screw as the
> > pivot axis and secure it on the far end with a
> > nylock nut.
> > 
> > Evidently other Heil designs may be more reliable. 
> > Mine were purchased 5-7
> > years ago and started to fail about two years later.
> >  Lots of use during ssb
> > contests.
> > 
> > 73,
> > Barry N1EU
> > 
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> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
> K5EWJ
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