Wooden switch box

Found this switch box at the Raleigh Flea Market. I had actually seen this twice before, on different Saturdays, but passed it by. Finally, I asked the seller if he would take $10 for this box, and another which I'll be covering later. The build quality was quite good, probably built in the 50's or 60's.

Inspection of the internals showed that it was an 8 way switch box -- it connects a pair of common terminals to a selected pair of terminals. The switch detents are implemented by a pair of metal rollers and a round plate with radial slots. As the switch is rotated, the rollers drop into the slots at the appropriate positions.

There is a small indicator window under the rotary switch that indicates the switch position.

I'm not sure I can make much use of this as is; it's not quite in the condition for something that I would put on display, but the box would make a nice housing for a custom built piece of equipment.

As seems to be common for equipment of this era, parallel wires are neatly bond together with cord.