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Posted By: Mike BigdaddyB Tokheim 870 light switch - Sun Mar 08 2020 02:31 AM
I just picked up this pump and it has what looks to be a factory light switch that pokes through the back skin
" opposite the crank reset" and was hoping someone could post a picture of what the knob that goes on the light switch shaft looks like. The shaft is threaded at the end.
Thanks.

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Posted By: MATT ALVAREZ Re: Tokheim 870 light switch - Sun Mar 08 2020 03:53 AM
That is not original. The hole was smaller with a grommet and the shaft was shorter with a dish on it. A screw driver or other item would have been put in the hole and pushed. Tokheim used this on many of their pumps. I have two 870s that are this way.

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Posted By: petropumps Re: Tokheim 870 light switch - Sun Mar 08 2020 06:47 AM
Agree w/ Matt...should be the standard Tokheim switch. Yours was added sometime later.
Posted By: Mike BigdaddyB Re: Tokheim 870 light switch - Sun Mar 08 2020 05:21 PM
Thanks that helps👍 this switch is not a push in type it turns clockwise so must have been added at some point.
Thanks again.
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