Excellent post!

Negative on Meder, got to go to Mouser for them. But there are many mfrs of reed switches out there, will look further.

Often orientation of reed switch is important. Can get these mounted 90degrees and they may or may not work depending on how operating magnet is situated. Post #4 above shows flat side of switch when you look into switch (and not edges of switch) -- is that correct?

And very good graphics they are!
This pretty much answers the question I previously asked about switch orientation.

Ed

Anybody have time to add this to pinwiki?
Also, a Hamlin reed relay is sometimes easier to find -- MITI-3V1-8-12.5

I'm not real good at laying out web pages but did get this stuff added to Pinwiki:
http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pinball_2000_Repair#Reed_Switches

Yep -- I have the Hamlin (now Littelfuse) version of these reed switches:
www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=MITI-3V1-8-12.5