Neve Dialistat Switches, Anyone?

[tim glasgow]

Yeah, from ribbon cables to switches. Anyone know where to get those
long dialistat switches in Neve 51 Series boards? Stanler Components in
the UK seems to have them, but it'd be great to get them in North
America somewhere. Would it make more sense to try to look for another
brand of switch that might fit in the same space or is there no hope of
finding any whose pins would line up with the existing holes?

i've got latching pin problems left and right - and i've only used
Electrolube on them.

--t
[london, canada and echo cañon, nyc]

[WillStG]

>tim glasgow
>Anyone know where to get those
>long dialistat switches in Neve 51 Series boards? Stanler Components in
>the UK seems to have them, but it'd be great to get them in North
>America somewhere.

If you find them buy them right away and get spares.
AMS-Neve has been very evasive about the fact the supplier stopped making them
(broke the mold" is the story I heard...) We have the same problem with our
Neve 55's at FNC, Jerry in our maintanance shop now rebuilds every bad switch
from our dynamics modules 'cause you can't just replace them.

You can probably get some parts from Stanler but not those critical
dialistat switches, Geoff Tanner on the matter...

<<Geoff Tanner )
Subject: Re: ATTN: Neve Owners(i have new sources for parts switches/pots)
Date: 2001-10-18 11:04:49 PST


(Neve 8068) wrote in message
>...
> Are you fed up and tired of paying outrageos prices for parts for your neve
> desks from Neve and other retailers and them taking forever to get parts to
you
> . Well I have spent a year reasearching where to buy parts direct but not
> have to buy in quantity. Well here are a the places you need to check out .
For
> Dialistat and Isostat switches go to www.stanler.co.uk
> and For Sfernice pot's go to www.vishaysfernice.com.
> I have bought parts from both recently and had no probs and it was a hell of
a
> lot cheaper then the monopoly Neve has going on. -Mark Owen

<<Hi Mark

Good move, except that you should have posted a proviso in case any folk with
81 series and onwards Neve's felt need for jubilation...

The dialistat switches you mention are no longer produced... there are
limited stocks remaining at ITT switches, Stanler, and AMS-Neve for
that matter. I know that AMS-Neve are being forced to ration sales of
the switches (or so I've been told) because they need enough to cover
their own production and spares so, in the circumstances, it's
inevitable that they will be hard to find.

In the case of dialistats, there was a post lower down this forum
about an engineer that has started to produce the plastic interlock
pins because, with those switches, the interlock pin will probably
shear long before the switch goes noisey. That's the area I'd
concentrate on, rather than a fruitless chase trying to find
diminishing stocks of a no longer made switch.

This must also affect the sales potential of Neve consoles of that
era...>>



Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

[tim glasgow]

In article >,
(WillStG) wrote:

> Geoff Tanner ) wrote:
>
> In the case of dialistats, there was a post lower down this forum
> about an engineer that has started to produce the plastic interlock
> pins because, with those switches, the interlock pin will probably
> shear long before the switch goes noisey. That's the area I'd
> concentrate on, rather than a fruitless chase trying to find
> diminishing stocks of a no longer made switch.

hi Will (i think i sat three people away from you at the RAP dinner),
thanks for the old Tanner reference. i spent a couple hours on Google
looking for the reference to the new-school homemade latching pins and
have turned up nothing. i've actually transplanted latching pins from
one switch to another and had it work, but it's really dodgy 'cuz you
can never get the metal covers to close all the way - i'm terrified
every time i hit that switch that it's gonna pop again.

hell, maybe i should just take the springs out of the bus assign
switchesŠ

the quest continues - if anyone has any ideas, please help!

--t
[echo cañon, nyc]
[see the console in question on the ECHOCAM at http://www.sonicyouth.com]

[Scott Dorsey]

There are some Tektronix video switching gadgets that use the same switches
and I know some folks who have bought old ones just to cannibalize for switches
to fix the Neves.
--scott


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