Shuttle switch protectors can be sourced inexpensively from a number of vendors online. All my toggle switches either have shuttle switch protectors or missile switch protectors. Toggle switches are way easier to install, inexpensive, incredibly reliable, take up little real-estate, and with a black panel, white text labeling is easily read at night with a dimmable LED strip under the glare shield.
Tom.
RV-7, with lots of toggle switches.
jdozment, take a look at these switches, they are toggle and lighted, also metal and not plastic. Also 20 amps rated @ 12 volts.
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Allen
Hi Paul,
I used a K-Sun BEE3 printer that I had purchased as a heat shrink printer for the wiring, and just changed out the cartridge for a white on black sticky backed version. It gives you a few text size options and multiple lines which is handy. I just printed a border around everything, then trimmed them back to look neat and professional. That was probably the most time consuming part. The best bit about it compared to getting something professionally done at the outset is that if you choose to make changes in the future (which you inevitably do) you just print another label and it matches everything that was already there. If you are buying a printer that you also plan on doing heat shrink labeling with, I think there are better options out there now. The key is get one which has cheap cartridges/heatshrink per unit length, as you end up going to through quite a bit more than you would think at the outset, and they quickly dwarf the cost of the printer if you are labeling every wire in the aircraft at both ends. I know there were some posts about half a year ago regarding printers somewhere on the forum.
Tom.
Sigh.... I wish you hadn't shown me those!
FWIW, I will only use Honeywell TL toggles, locking for important stuff and non locking for everything else.
What are the important functions that deserve the locking toggles?
Thanks,
Before you decided on toggles or rockers you should check availability. The toggles are readily available. The rockers, well lets just say my first flight will probably have the flaps and landing lights with the unlighted versions. Digikey says they will get some more in June, but probably not the ones I need. There is a hugh back log building up for rockers.
Sigh.... I wish you hadn't shown me those!