Does anyone have a clue what Janines alarm button is? I’ve searched for vintage alarm switch buttons and cannot find anything close to this. Maybe it was custom made? An odd emergency stop button connected to a half chromed dome?
We had switched like that on the huge harris-cottrell web printers I used to work on years ago. It looks like its mounted on a hotel desk bell, or something similiar in shape.
It’s a 9001-TR14 Heavy-Duty oil-tight control unit from a company called Square D which is no longer in business. They were bought out by Schneider Electric at some point and the current line has nothing comparable unfortunately. I just happened across mine on ebay, the seller had a bunch though so jump on it while you can.
There are a number of other TR models but most have either a partial or full safety ■■■■■■ around the button that would prevent you from slamming down on it:
As you can see they have removeable colored lenses. There’s no electrical connection at all, it’s just a spring loaded pushbutton. Now to find a suitable base…
The base closely resembles a part of a urinal. The portion where the pipe goes from the top of the urinal into the wall…usually there’s a metal “dome” covering the connection area.
MOD EDIT: Technically you’re not allowed to post live auctions as they typically sell out immediately but seeing as that auction is now sold out I’ll leave it up as reference for other people. It’s where I got mine from.
Sloan seems to make one of those urinal flushers with that dome you’re talking about that looks pretty damn close.
Trying to find if there’s any way to buy just that part individually.
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Hmmm… depends. The zoomed in view on their website makes it look like that upper dome is part of the valve like it’s 1 piece. But other google image searches show some urinal valves to have the dome being a separate piece.
Doing some Google searches for “Sloan Outside Cover” and turning up some promising results. Trying to find the Sloan Flushometer one, so far mostly finding the “Royal” model, and it’s not quite the same too steep an angle on the sides not enough curve.
Hmmm damn. Keep turning up both Royal and Regal models. There’s one that’s just “Sloan” which sucks because the company named the line the same as the damn company name. That looks to be spot on accurate, the other two look are just a bit off.