[WRL] Anyone still here?

Robert Nickels ranickel at comcast.net
Tue Aug 13 20:30:19 EDT 2019


On 8/13/2019 6:39 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> Thinking about whether I should grab any switches that look like their parts or not.

Wayne, you probably already know this but those switches are quite 
unique.  I don't know who the manufacturer was, but unlike the more 
common design where formed contacts are riveted to ceramic or fiber 
wafers, the contacts on the Galaxy switches are molded into plastic 
wafers and if you ever break off a terminal, it's not easy to 
repair.     I had to improvise a solution when one wafer in one of my 
WRL SB-175 Meteor transmitters failed, and that's when I learned they 
are the same type as were later used in the Galaxy III and V at 
least.    Of course the switching configuration would have to be the 
same in order to be of much use.

73, Bob W9RAN



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