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Old 4th Feb 2019, 9:03 pm   #10
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Default Re: What is it - Enigma related??

1) It looks expensive and that narrows the field down a bit

2) All the switches are ganged together and turn in step and there are easier ways of doing that.

3) There appear to be small adjusters with twin screws and locking compound that I think may be to allow small adjustment to be made in the phasing of individual switches.

4) There are transparent covers to make the positions of individual switches clearly visible. They're almost presented to some operator. Do the covers come off easily and are the switches then offsettable in some way?

5) Someone thought it worthwhile to tool up metal, phenolic and transparent castings.

6) 16 ways is a nice round binary number which suggests boolean jiggery pokery.

7) It seems unusually free of maker's names, model numbers and all that jazz.

8) The language is English. Not sure if it sounds American or English English.

Curiouser and curiouser!

David
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