Star Wars Plug and Control panels
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I’d like to publicly post that I think I found this interesting cockpit part. Look behind Mark, to the left, you’ll see a couple boxes with screws and knobs on them.
This looks to me to be an RAF Aerial Switch, an Amp Oscillator, etc and I have one.
The next post I’ll upload some disassembly. It’s always been one of my favorite shaped parts in the cockpit. I don’t think much else is used, seems they added an aluminum knob to one of the connector ports… but it’s HEAVY. Cast aluminum I think, or something like it. A lot of the weight comes from this dense brick in the middle.
This looks to me to be an RAF Aerial Switch, an Amp Oscillator, etc and I have one.
The next post I’ll upload some disassembly. It’s always been one of my favorite shaped parts in the cockpit. I don’t think much else is used, seems they added an aluminum knob to one of the connector ports… but it’s HEAVY. Cast aluminum I think, or something like it. A lot of the weight comes from this dense brick in the middle.
Here are some shots of me disassembling it on a messy workbench. I de-soldered the wires and it only took some pliers and a screwdriver to get the torqued screws to budge. I don’t really know what I’m looking at, other than the black part has a swing arm that pushes the leaf plates to each side, connecting the circuit to each amphenol port.
I also don’t know what the hell this is. There’s a blanking plug in one side and then this thing, which IS on the set decoration
It looks like it had bits of quartz in it, and a filter mesh beneath them. Is it busted glass? Wtf?
Without the black brick it is much lighter and I can see bolting that to a prop wall makes more sense than it’s original dense state..
I also don’t know what the hell this is. There’s a blanking plug in one side and then this thing, which IS on the set decoration
It looks like it had bits of quartz in it, and a filter mesh beneath them. Is it busted glass? Wtf?
Without the black brick it is much lighter and I can see bolting that to a prop wall makes more sense than it’s original dense state..
I did attempt to short all the capacitors with grounded screwdrivers, nothing happened lolDon’t get shocked!
I think the bottom has a pcb that is.. drowned in resin or wax?! It’s yellow and has a channel hand-cut for the switch parts from the upper
The bottom filler became brittle when heated, softened under hot water, and smelled like a candle in an old submarine.. anyway, that part isnt used on the prop so i chipped away as much as I could to view the circuit underneath. It's all on a brown plain fiberglass board, I'll take pics later.
Someone on reddit suggested the vent could be full of desiccant, to keep the inside condensation free, which can build up in thermal cycles?
The next found part. It's a switch. I went through google and my photos for public ones, they're not great, so if anyone wants to, they can add better ones.
it's a switch found on the back wall of the Millennium Falcon Cockpit, on the arms of the window pre-production, etc. There are two around the "paddle" on the back wall, and three above the door, it's what Han clicks before punching the wall.
And on the Biceps of FX-7's arms. In between the arms.
Images of the switch to follow...
Someone on reddit suggested the vent could be full of desiccant, to keep the inside condensation free, which can build up in thermal cycles?
The next found part. It's a switch. I went through google and my photos for public ones, they're not great, so if anyone wants to, they can add better ones.
it's a switch found on the back wall of the Millennium Falcon Cockpit, on the arms of the window pre-production, etc. There are two around the "paddle" on the back wall, and three above the door, it's what Han clicks before punching the wall.
And on the Biceps of FX-7's arms. In between the arms.
Images of the switch to follow...
I have to upload pictures from my iphone and its not syncing with my laptop sorry, i will edit this post in 20 min
This is an RAF Switch Type 447, from a PDF of inventory codes I found, (I can email it to you) this is on page 72
Colin Hinson is the author of this PDF, via the RAF Henlow Signals Museum, and is only meant for reference.
Mine came with a machined mount for something
Disassembled
And then in the configuration we see on screen
I really like the chrome bezel and the cream white button cap!
This is an RAF Switch Type 447, from a PDF of inventory codes I found, (I can email it to you) this is on page 72
Colin Hinson is the author of this PDF, via the RAF Henlow Signals Museum, and is only meant for reference.
Mine came with a machined mount for something
Disassembled
And then in the configuration we see on screen
I really like the chrome bezel and the cream white button cap!
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Apparently this is an Oscillator Tuning Switch, considered a spring return. It can change frequencies in a unit meant to receive and send automatic pings to interrogation of approaching craft. It can also send out Maydays, and the whole unit was built to be able to be upgraded as tech got better. It is mounted right next to a self-destruct detonator should it ever fall into enemy hands.
BTW there are TWO aerial switches in the X wing cockpit. One entire 3-layer switch is sitting in the dark right above the one we've been looking at. look back at my photo above, you're looking at the top of the Desiccant Vent and the aluminum knob or the silver port plug, as opposed to the side of these right below it lol what the hell guys
I'm also intrigued at the black "adaptor" beneath the aluminum knob covering the amphenol port
I'm also intrigued at the black "adaptor" beneath the aluminum knob covering the amphenol port
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