ksbf44
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Looking for Siemens panel/door part #'s to fit an old ITE panel. ITE panel part # is EQ3X8, iTE door part # is SU160RLK16.
Seeing how Siemens bought ITE shouldn't you have access to that info in the archives?
Roger
Considering that the buy-out took place long before the internet existed, I doubt you will find any help on that.
10 years ago I was helping a friend who worked at Siemens move to a new office. In the move, they were throwing out a wall of old Siemens, ITE and even Louis Allis catalogs going back to the late 60s. I "rescued" them from the trash bin and took them to my office at the time. But unfortunately I left that company for the job I now have and they would not allow me to take those catalogs, they had become very very valuable (at the time I left anyway) in servicing a customer we had who was always rebuilding old gear. More recently I needed info that I knew would be in one of those old catalogs and called someone I knew who was still there, he couldn't find them. It's a crying shame...
What shocked me more was the Siemens office tossing them out in the first place. It was a new young (Gen-X) manager who basically said "Everything we need to know is available on-line. Recycle the paper..." Those old catalogs were a treasure trove of info that was NOT on-line.they took your books, man? :happysad: what is an engineer supposed to do?
I learned an important lesson from my mentor. He produced some paper describing sag calculations for wooden utility poles. The paper was literally yellow and I increduously pointed out how old it was. He stopped me mid sentence and told me that doesn't make it wrong.What shocked me more was the Siemens office tossing them out in the first place. It was a new young (Gen-X) manager who basically said "Everything we need to know is available on-line. Recycle the paper..." Those old catalogs were a treasure trove of info that was NOT on-line.
my wife and daughter had given me a "gift" of cleaning out my office, during which they dumped those "boxes of old yellow papers" into the recycle bin. I've never told them how much that pissed me off because they thought they were doing something nice for me, but it did.
I understand the frustration, hopefully someone here can help. Along with Jraef, there is another member called Zog that knows a lot about Siemens, maybe he'll chime in or you can PM him.
Roger