Talk:Panel switch

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I have access to a functioning panel switch at the Museum of Communications. Though I can't guarantee any sort of timeline in the future, I will be there on 20-Mar-2007. Drop me a line if you want pictures or audio recordings! The Slimey 23:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Splendid. I only worked a few weeks in a panel office in the late summer of 1969, learned little, and forgot most of that. Mostly they had me pulling wires on the MDF. See what kind of detail you can get on the clutches and the, darn it, I've forgotten the name but the hand that grabs the terminals. Senders might be nice, too, especially if they've got a mix of flat spring and wire spring like I saw in 1969. Oh, and the trunk test panel with jacks. Lots of interesting parts. Jim.henderson 00:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I've posted what pictures I took at [1]. There is a wide and narrow shot of a sender (I think that it's a sender ...). In this office, originally installed in Seattle in 1923, all the relays are flat-spring. Also a wide shot of a district selector frame, and some (dark) detail on the selecting hand things. Unfortunately there wasn't much light and my camera isn't that good at macro photography. If you think any of these deserve to be on Wikipedia then tell me which and I'll upload them. :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Slimey.limey (talk • contribs) 16:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

The last picture, of the selector frame, is good and I'd like to add it to the article. The first two don't indicate what kind of subsystem it is, but they are the only pictures we've got of flat spring relays, so one or the other would make a good addition. The others show poorly on my screen and presumably on others. Thank you; two pictures that actually illustrate something clearly, out of five, is not too bad a record. Jim.henderson 03:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I've uploaded it. I think I have a better image, so I'll go look in my images directory (uncategorized :( ). The Slimey 07:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh no, I don't know how to include a Wikimedia Commons image in Wikipedia! It's at [2]. The Slimey 07:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

So, it's in the article now, and a nice shot. I didn't know how to create a picture link either, so I went to the telephone plug article, stole the picture reference from there, pasted the panel picture's name in place of the plug picture's name, and deleted the size limitation so any user will see whatever size is set as default in "Preferences". Perhaps you would also like to put in one of the pictures of flat spring relays, but anyway, thank you for the picture. Jim.henderson 05:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)