Rotary switches

I got some I guess there called rotary switches I had some that were brass and these are not they are white in color could they be zinc,aluminum or stainless? I'm not sure what it is I did 75 of them and had 4oz in those ideas?

Waiting on ya, mike1 what did you discover by filing through the surface was it electroplated with silver or is it German silver.

Originally Posted by alloy2

waiting on ya, mike1 what did you discover by filing through the surface was it electroplated with silver or is it german silver.

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It's white all through going to get a grinding disk to check them. I've been busy micro scrapping brass I did some selector switches I'm not sure how to get the brass off of the steel circle thing though ideas?.

Selector switch from window acs https://youtube.com/shorts/yG0YIINhV...VY4AFLCToXjfMc

Originally Posted by mike1

Selector switch from window acs https://youtube.com/shorts/yG0YIINhV...VY4AFLCToXjfMc

Easier to wrap a rag around and hit with a hammer before pulling the brass.

I think i might understand what you're asking Mike. Is it that you want to remove the shaft that the selector knob was attached to ? It's the piece shown in the last little bit of the video ?

Can't tell if that's brass or not. Why don't you check it with a magnet ?

Anyhow ... it looks like the shaft might be held in place with an E clip. Pop the the E clip if there is one ... and then see what you're left with.

Originally Posted by hills

I think i might understand what you're asking Mike. Is it that you want to remove the shaft that the selector knob was attached to ? It's the piece shown in the last little bit of the video ?

Can't tell if that's brass or not. Why don't you check it with a magnet ?

Anyhow ... it looks like the shaft might be held in place with an E clip. Pop the the E clip if there is one ... and then see what you're left with.

Anodized to look like brass, bring out the big gun aka magnet.

I would just cut it off

Originally Posted by hills

I think i might understand what you're asking Mike. Is it that you want to remove the shaft that the selector knob was attached to ? It's the piece shown in the last little bit of the video ?

Can't tell if that's brass or not. Why don't you check it with a magnet ?

Anyhow ... it looks like the shaft might be held in place with an E clip. Pop the the E clip if there is one ... and then see what you're left with.

Yeah it had that I pulled that off and the shaft is brass the other bit is steel the flower looking thing I found out I have to cut it off the brass with a ocilator comes off pretty good though. At least I know what that clip is called now haha.

Originally Posted by alloy2

Stick the shaft into a short piece of metal pipe with the flower thing onto give the shaft a smack with a hammer and that circlip will slip out of the grooved holding it in place.

Oh yes the snap rings are dreadful of you have snap ring pliers much easier but I used a tiny allen and a tiny star bit on a screw driver.

I tend to use the angle grinder to cut the snap rings in half. You can often pry out the E clips with a straight blade screwdriver. It only takes a few seconds to get em' out of the way when you're doing the break down.


The specialty tools are nice to have but it usually equates to half an hour or more spent looking around the shop to find them. Lol ... have you ever hunted for that exact right tool only to have it show up three weeks later when you don't need it anymore ? Murphy's law strikes again !

Originally Posted by hills

I tend to use the angle grinder to cut the snap rings in half. You can often pry out the E clips with a straight blade screwdriver. It only takes a few seconds to get em' out of the way when you're doing the break down.


The specialty tools are nice to have but it usually equates to half an hour or more spent looking around the shop to find them. Lol ... have you ever hunted for that exact right tool only to have it show up three weeks later when you don't need it anymore ? Murphy's law strikes again !

One thing about scrapping is that you dont always have or cant find the special tools, so you improvise and come up with other ways of doing things.

So many times ive lost my wire cutters after just using them to only find them days later. last time i lost them i was driving and went around a sharp turn and they fell off my bumper and slid onto the shoulder. i got them on the way back and found 20ft of house wire half burried in the gravel. alright! 50 cents lol

Originally Posted by greytruck

One thing about scrapping is that you dont always have or cant find the special tools, so you improvise and come up with other ways of doing things.

So many times ive lost my wire cutters after just using them to only find them days later. last time i lost them i was driving and went around a sharp turn and they fell off my bumper and slid onto the shoulder. i got them on the way back and found 20ft of house wire half burried in the gravel. alright! 50 cents lol

Whoo boy .... i can relate. Was always setting my gloves or a tape measure on the bumper when i was pounding nails for a living. That last hour of the workday was where i made most of my mistakes. Was tired and that end of the day panic to get everything wrapped up was setting in. Even lost my hat one day.

The nice thing about the scrapping work is that you don't have to be very fussy when you're doing your teardown. It's not like you're ever have to put it back together again. I've watched those guys from Pakistan and India on youtube. Give em' a big hammer and a cold chisel ... they can dismantle just about anything. Myself ... i'm one of those lazy/rich/ spoiled Americans. The backhoe at work can dismantle a washer & dryer in less than three minutes. Just grab it between the back bucket and the thumb ... give it a good shake ... and the whole works comes flying apart.