The Mellotron Group

I am tempted to make a mold of the red plastic part and cast one under
pressure out of polyurethane-I'm guessing the originals were styrene but
maybe acrylic (possibly too early for that material, can't remember). I've
been making missing keys and other parts for my weird little collections
in this way so why not a switch top?

> I think most people have gone to using this kind of switch.
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> In a message dated 6/18/2011 11:30:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ben@stuyts.com writes:
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> I was  afraid of that, I could not find it anywhere. So what kind of power
> switch is  on the 'new' mellotrons these days then?
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> Kind regards,
> Ben
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> On  17 Jun 2011, at 15:49, John Hammaren wrote:
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>> Ah,  the red cap. As Frank told me when he was rebuilding my #525, they
> are just  not readily available. I ran off saying, of course it must be.
> After all,  Mouser catalog is what, ,like 2500 pages? No way it is not in
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> those.  Yes way. I think two or three folks in the world have them. Expect
> a nice  uplift on that one if you can convince them to sell. Very rare it
> seems. Maybe  one of our members will chime in if they have one to part
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>> Regards,
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>> Mr Neel\u2019s (#525)  caretaker
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>> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of benstuyts
>>  Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 9:36 AM
>> To:  newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] M400  power switch
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>> Hi,
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>> The  power switch on my M400 is missing the red cap. It's still
> functioning  otherwise, so I was wondering if that cap is available
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> somewhere?  If not, is the complete switch available?
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>> Kind  regards,
>> Ben
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