On Thu, 19 May 2005 21:39:25 GMT, Rich Grise
wrote:

On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:20:48 +0100, Peter wrote:

Hi,

Someone has lost the red "disconnect" button onmy KFC225 autopilot.

Honeywell want a lot of money for a whole new switch. Would anyone
know who makes this switch? It looks like a standard pushbutton
switch, with a button about 9mm diameter.

I could make a new button easily enough if I knew the thread used in
the centre of the button (the button has a male screw on it). It
certainly isn't metric.

If you _know_ it's not metric, it's probably 4-40 or 6-32. These are
standard thread sizes in that size of stuff. I've seen those buttons
before, so I'm pretty confident about that. Are you in a metric-only
country?

The switch manufacturer is probably one of the well known names...

Any info would be much appreciated.

One of these links might have some useful info:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pushbutton+switch

Good Luck!
Rich


Hmmm....I must be out of sorts.
A person needs a button with a male thread.
He could make it himself if he knew the size.
The makers price is too high.
He wants someone like Rich to tell him the thread size.
Have I got the facts right so far?

So the hardware store has some screws at 5 cents each
or so for him to try. Let's say he might buy 5 different sizes.
That's a quarter. Is that getting too costly, already?

Brian (sour-grapes) Whatcott, Altus, OK