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Arcade Button Light Switches
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 08, 2011, 09:29:19 pm ---This is such a ridiculous product, I'm beside myself. Someone drilled button holes and put in a different switch. On top of that, there's a reason light switches, even the large lever type, are 'up/down'.
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Vintage light switch:
mpm32:
lol, I put vintage light switches in for every switch in my house.
Similar to the pic.
That's the way the switches were in the early days of electricity. I think the push button came after the rotary on/off switch.
DaOld Man:
I remember those vintage pushbutton light switches in a house my family rented back in the early sixties. I was pretty young but still remember that.
And yes, I also remember dinosaurs on the lawn. ;D
Howard_Casto:
Yeah the old-fashioned dual button switches were actually of superior quality, but they cost more to make so they were lost to progress. Loved the faceplates back then as well. Solid, 1/8 inch brass! Those things are beasts. The switches are long gone, but my grandma's house has one of the switches made during the "transition period" that actually fit blade switches and dual buttons. They are great.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on June 09, 2011, 07:58:01 pm ---I remember those vintage pushbutton light switches in a house my family rented back in the early sixties. I was pretty young but still remember that.
And yes, I also remember dinosaurs on the lawn. ;D
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We were house hunting in 2007 and found houses that still had them.