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#152277 04/02/06 08:26 PM
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has anyone ever heard of electrical equipment by the name of "Mongerson's Machine Works"

Mike,
Mongerson machine works turns out as I've learned to have been a local company to where I live now (Bakersfield, CA). This made them obviously fairly popular around here... I have some pics of one someplace @ home I'll get posted up.. (The ones Ive seen are probably about 50-60 years old)

#152278 04/03/06 04:19 PM
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Randy: Thanks for getting back to me. I would definitely be interested in seeing any pics you may have. This switch (still installed - alas, it's got current to the line side or else it might have "mysteriously disappeared" some time back) seems to be built to a very high quality, actually much better than some of the Square D or Siemens stuff I see nowadays.

Kinda curious that, with the multitude of Square D's, ITE's, General Electrics, Wadsworths, FPE's (their safety switches aren't so bad, just the CB's [Linked Image]) and so on, that this one lone Mongerson Switch is the only one I have ever run across.

The only thing I really didn't like about its design was that the switch jaws were hidden from view beneath the entire internal assembly. As with a number of other people, probably, when I operate a safety switch (especially when shutting it off) I like to look inside afterward to verify that the action actually took place. I've had a few "lie" to me in the past [Linked Image].

Mike (mamills)

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