[time-nuts] Racal-Dana 1992 switches

[Dan Rae]

d.seiter at comcast.net wrote:

>Are these switches the same as the ones in the 1996?  Mine works perfectly now, but if the switches are a ticking time bomb, I'm going to move it to a area with better temperature control, and start looking for a donor unit just in case.
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They both used the same switches.  However, not all batches of these 
seem to have suffered the problem.  If any on a unit go they may well 
all die.  Also it is possible that they may have been replaced at some 
time in the past, I knew a technician at the service dept here in 
California who did a lot of them way back, when they were still 
supported...  It is hard to be more specific... 

 From examination of the dead ones I remember it was a rubber insert 
that died.  They start to feel a bit less springy than usual, then die.

My 29 cent Jameco switches have worked for me for at least five years 
now.  I don't think you would want to have paid racal's prices for them 
anyway :^)

dr