Beefing up 1/4 inch socket switches
 

The third amp in 3 days all requiring attention to quarter inch sockets of
one sort or another.
Can anyone put a generic or maker's name to this compact axial type
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/quarter.jpg
no info of any sort on the socket.
This one from an Ashdown effects return with dodgy bypass switch.
There are 2 places in the plastic body that drilling through coincides with
holes in the metalwork almost as though designed to wrap some silicone
rubber cordage (blue in pics) around the switches to increase the closure
force, located in place by curves in the contact parts. Then cleaning the
contacts.
Tip contact to the left and ring contact at bottom of first image.

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

Beefing up 1/4 inch socket switches
 

Incidently my test for whether such bypass switches need attention , even
before dismantling the amp.
Take one cocktail stick/toothpick . Hold at one end between thumb and index
finger and poke the other end in the socket - if the contact breaks before
the cocktail stick breaks ,about 150 gms over length of 65mm.

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

Beefing up 1/4 inch socket switches
 

N Cook wrote:

The third amp in 3 days all requiring attention to quarter inch sockets of
one sort or another.
Can anyone put a generic or maker's name to this compact axial type
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/quarter.jpg
no info of any sort on the socket.

It is AIUI originally a Switchcraft pattern but is very widely copied by Asian
suppliers. JAE ?? comes to mind from the dark recesses of my mind.

http://www.switchcraft.com

Graham