Ken Seefried wrote:
While not strictly OT, I figure if any crowd would know an answer to
this, this one would. I'm building some electronic toys that need a
retro look. I'm looking for some toggle switches (SPST) with long
paddle handles, very old school. All I can find in the regular catalogs
have anemic small paddles. Any pointers?
How big is big? Are you looking for the extra long
*plastic* "flat" bats? Or, just the older steel bat
toggles?
NKK makes some of the latter -- bat is maybe 7/8" long
(measured from the outermost portion of the switch body).
They also make some of the flat plastic handles though
only ~3/4" long (not like the 2" long bats). Former have
#6-32 screw terminals, latter are smaller solder eyelets.
Mountain makes one with a bat about 1" long (from the mounting
surface) that's sort of flat.
Marlin had some really cool *lighted* plastic toggles with
reasonably long (flat) bats. But stock there tends to be
variable. (red, green and yellow! :> ) I've seen the same
sw's elsewhere so if interested I'll have to dig deeper.
Note that these tend to be much larger than the C&K minitoggles
so make sure you've planned extra space behind your panel, etc.