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2273105 No.2273105 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /sci/, what's the name of this kind of switch?

In case you can't tell, it's the huge kind of switch with the handle, that you pull, turn, and push.

It has also been seen in Star Trek and Metroid.

>> No.2273121

fleshhand

>> No.2273130

>>2273121
I don't think so. The hand isn't actually part of the switch.

>> No.2273133

I think one just borrowed from the next

>> No.2273144

pull-turn switch

>> No.2273163
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>> No.2273170

>>2273144
A likely name, but it gets me nothing.
I'm looking for google image results to confirm.

>> No.2273201

bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bump

>> No.2273566

goddamnit its on the tip of my tongue, you had to handle a bunch of those in the mass effect 2 dlc, the lair of the shadow broker.

>> No.2273568

A swivel-lock.

>> No.2273583
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>>2273105
>he uses vlc

>> No.2273616

I think they used a similar switch on the reactor controls in the movie Pandorum and I think they showed a screen prompt telling the main character to use it but I can't remember what it said.

>> No.2273659

>>2273568
That doesn't seem to be it either. The most relevant thing Google Images can turn up is the kind of wheel that's attached to the bottom of office chairs.

>> No.2273669

>>2273583
>>>/g/

>> No.2273772

nuclear reactor on sub in james bond

jurassic park embryos


its not real

>> No.2273782

>>2273772

If all these movies can get them as props means it has a name.

>> No.2273804

>>2273782
HAHAHAHA!
no.
usually they would call it the switch prop, possibly Big Cool Switch Thing.
and in addendum: OP is a homo.

>> No.2273815

>>2273804
If people gave 'space docking' name, then there is probably a name for the thing in OPs pic.

>> No.2273823

If no one can find a name for It or proof that it actually exists then I'm going to go ahead and patent it.

>> No.2273829
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>>2273815
and yet there isn't.
go back to /x/ where wanting to believe is accepted as evidence.

>> No.2273947

Is it not the same thing used for dynamite, just more elaborate?

>> No.2273958

>>2273947
a detonator plunger isn't a switch but a high voltage DC generator (shove it down, make a spark).

>> No.2273999

>>2273958
A plunger?
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/plunger?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744:v0qd01
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4. Mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion

The fact that you lift it is by the by. Is still the plunging motion that triggers the switch,

>> No.2274120

This is a picture of a Switch That Does Something Really Important (STDSRI). A STDSRI is commonly seen in a variety of action-adventure and scifi epics.

In real life, the only difference between a STDSRI and an ordinary switch is that the STDSRI has a red guard covering it, to prevent some fumblefingered moron from accidentally throwing it.