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rdagger:
I made a trip to the Apex electronics junk yard today.  I call it a junk yard because half of the antiquated electronic equipment is outside uncovered being rained upon.  This place has no inventory system.  Just piles of boxes 20 feet high with mainly old aircraft avionics.   A few of the boxes actually have parts on the front to show what's inside.  As I was walking down one of the dark aisles, I caught something out of the corner of my eye.  About 10 feet up was a large box with an Atari volcano switch stuck to the front.  I quickly piled up some junk and climbed up to the box.   I brought the heavy box down and placed it on the counter.  I slowly opened it up and it was filled with tons of switches.  Unfortunately, they were not even close to the volcano switches.  However, after looking through every box on the aisle I was able to score 4 volcano switches.  Three of them have no lens and have mini bulbs in them instead of LED's.  These probably came from an aircraft.  No problem, I will install LED's and cast some new lens.  Maybe I will make a clear and few blue volcanos to go with my green volcanos.  I also picked up some very cool aluminum button volcano switches that do not illuminate.  I gladly paid $2 per switch.  I just finished testing them and they all work.
Fozzy The Bear:
Half way through, I thought you were about to tell us that you'd found a box of 400 NOS volcano buttons.  ::)  Ahh well! that's life.....

Nice find on the ones you got though.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
rdagger:
I knew it was too good to be true.  Still it's good to know that the switches were used for other applications besides arcade.  The 3 switches w/o the lens were made by Licon and are the same as the original volcano switches except that they have miniature sockets in them for incandescent lights about the size of a mini-maglite bulb.  If I can find out what they were used for maybe I could pick up some more.
Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: rdagger on March 19, 2006, 01:17:01 am ---If I can find out what they were used for maybe I could pick up some more.

--- End quote ---

Keep us posted on that!

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
MYX:
That sounds like a fun place. I would love to go and loose a few hours at a place like that.
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