I've been fiddling with a few mechanical switch ideas and I'm still not satisifed with any of what I've come up with.
I'm putting these in a case ground mod but the place that the switch will be will be isolated (i.e. not going through teh actual metal case) it's for the positive pole. I'm building an insert that goes into the tube that will have the positive terminal on the bottom and the atty connector on the top and sit inside the tube. I've thought about a plain old push button style switch with a post that connects to small copper rods, one from the battery terminal and one from the center pin of the atty connector as well as a 'spring steel' style flat tab that is attached tot he positive terminal and when you push it down it makes contactw ith the rod from the center pin of the atty connector. Both seem viable but I worry about wear and tear on em.
I need something simple, durable, and mechanical. I don't want to use wires and prebuilt switches from mouser or digikey, I want all my parts except the atty connector to be hand made. I own a small metal lathe and various other tools so manufacturing the parts isn't a big deal. Anyone have any ideas I could.. borrow?
I'm putting these in a case ground mod but the place that the switch will be will be isolated (i.e. not going through teh actual metal case) it's for the positive pole. I'm building an insert that goes into the tube that will have the positive terminal on the bottom and the atty connector on the top and sit inside the tube. I've thought about a plain old push button style switch with a post that connects to small copper rods, one from the battery terminal and one from the center pin of the atty connector as well as a 'spring steel' style flat tab that is attached tot he positive terminal and when you push it down it makes contactw ith the rod from the center pin of the atty connector. Both seem viable but I worry about wear and tear on em.
I need something simple, durable, and mechanical. I don't want to use wires and prebuilt switches from mouser or digikey, I want all my parts except the atty connector to be hand made. I own a small metal lathe and various other tools so manufacturing the parts isn't a big deal. Anyone have any ideas I could.. borrow?