Inline Cord Switch - Heavy Duty (up to 10 amps) Rocker Switch, (on/off snap toggle)
Authentic Vintage Design - Made in USA
Recommended for use with our Round 3-wire cloth covered cords (or any round 16-18 gauge cord). The opening in these is circular and will fit round cord best, although 2-wire twisted cords and parallel (flat cords) will still work, there will just be more room around the opening.
This black inline rocker switch is heavy duty in terms of how much current it can handle, (but no larger than our other switches!), and looks great on all kinds of lamps, lighting, fans or radios, and a variety of other small appliances! Great vintage design, you'll have a hard time telling this is a modern production heavy duty cord switch and not something right off of Edison's workbench!
Feed through switches are easy to work with: The shell unscrews with 2 screws. Your cord (make sure you have no power going to it!) will have 2 wires, the "neutral" wire will bypass the switch, just run it along the space in the bottom. Cut your "hot" wire in half, strip your ends (we recommend a small piece of electrical tape when using our cloth wire), and attach one end of your "hot" wire to one screw terminal, and attach the other end to the other. Done: lights on, lights off!
This listing is for the black inline rocker switch only (a quantity of 1 = 1 switch!!! Wire shown as an example, can be purchased separately!!!)
Posted by Randy on Feb 14th 2021
This switch is the perfect upgrade for the 60 year old switch on my Leica slide projector. The openings fit the existing lamp cord and the screw terminals could not have been easier to connect. It's quiet which is a great improvement over the popping and intermittent operation of the old inline switch.
Posted by Unknown on Nov 13th 2020
Prefect for vintage light restoration, fit cloth wrapped wiring perfectly.
Posted by Unknown on Nov 5th 2020
This is a good buy. The product is as advertised. The seller responded quickly to questions. The delivery was slow, not the sellers fault. Product was shipped USPS Priority Mail with a one two-day delivery. Delivery was four days.
It should be noted that if a three wire (16-2 /w gnd ) is employed , the ingress and egress ports will be needed to drill out to 5/16". This should be done very slowly, at slow speed and with minimal pressure as the plastic is brittle and cracks easily.
Overall, this is a good product. A satisfactory purchase.
Posted by James Williams on Sep 19th 2020
This switch fit in line the way it was suppose to. Heavy duty good workmanship.
Posted by Maryann on Jan 3rd 2020
Well made fairly simple to install. 16gauge twisted wire fits! Yea! Fast Shipping.
Posted by Jerry M on Oct 14th 2019
just what was needed, great service as always.