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Has anyone seen or come across one of these?

Hi all, I am relying on my UK counterparts to help me out here. I am after one of these for an authentic rebuild of my T.7 and over here in little ole NZ stuff like this is just so hard to find…It is the ‘Control Unit Type 307’ for the A.1553 (part of the original intercom system)

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/Anthonyg/A7%20No.7%20-%20Copy_zpso4nwzosw.jpg

Can anyone out there help in ‘old parts land’????

I would be hugely grateful

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Anthony

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By: AnthonyG - 23rd December 2016 at 19:36

Aaah ok, thanks very much! Any other ways of doing it? the reason I ask is because I wondered if the maker produced anything to mount them?

Thanks again Smirky!

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By: smirky - 23rd December 2016 at 10:46

Just use tapped hex spacers, with a thick plate screwed behind the dimmer to prevent unfairly stressing the plastic lugs.

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By: AnthonyG - 23rd December 2016 at 07:59

Thanks Rocketeer, I agree, they are pretty common, looks easy enough to make one up.

One final thing that puzzles me (I am sure it is obvious, but this simple male needs clarification!) is mounting the dimmer switches so that just the on-off knob pokes out the inst panel hole? I understand if they are mounted on a flat base, that’s easy. But is there a spacer part that mounts behind the panel to the mount points on the dimmer switch?? Does that make sense what I am saying? I have gone through all my drawings but nothing is showing me….must be one of my missing ones of course!

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By: Rocketeer - 19th December 2016 at 08:07

Those switches and lamps are easy to get

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By: AnthonyG - 18th December 2016 at 21:45

Thanks James, yes I think you might be right. I think that will be the best way to go.

I will get a hold of Peter Stoddart who looks after the Auster drawings and see if he has the drawing etc.

Thanks anyway and appreciate you taking the time to reply

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By: jamesinnewcastl - 18th December 2016 at 16:49

Hi

It looks like it actually just consists of a standard lamp, a standard switch and an escutcheon plate – probably nothing behind it. If you have the circuit diagram (in the A.P.) then you could confirm what should be there. The switches come up on ebay all the time, you would need to make the plate though I suspect.

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