On 1/19/2011 9:12 AM zek spake thus:

On Jan 19, 10:09 am, frank1492 wrote:

Thank you all! I Googled a million images with every conceivable
description and nothing showed up. There was nothing on the switch
itself to identify it, should have looked more carefully at the
bracket.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:37:43 -0500, frank1492
wrote:

These may date back to the 60's not sure, and they may be
discontinued as I can't find them anywhere on the Net. I have an
electrical box with three small wall toggle switches rated 10
amps each. Mine are made by Bryant. They snap into a stamped
metal triplex "bracket" which then mounts in any standard small
rectangular electric box. With the box mounted with its long
dimension horizontal, the three switches would toggle up and
down. Can someone give me the history of these and let me know if
they are still available?

You should have showed a pic. You didn't say if you looked on Allied.
or other electronics sites, even Grainger.

Not good suggestions. Allied carries no household electrical items like
those kinds of switches, and Grainger isn't a good place to look for
speciality residential electrical items either. Your local electrical
supply house is the place to go.

Why don't you pick one like you need from the images. Just make sure
its rated for 120 VAC and 15 amps. DC requires more amps, so 10 DC
should be fine with a 120VAC switch.

Where do you get "DC" from? This is undoubtedly in a common household
120 VAC circuit.


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