stripping airhead switchgear

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...or more pertinently, how to get it back together again

i've had this switchgear apart as the horn button failed (wire fallen off), and have got most of it back together. i got the dip rocker working but i'm struggling with the rotary lights on/off switch. it has a spring for the detent, and i guess it has a ball bearing too, though i've never seen it. i have a spare bb but it's a right bastard to assemble. i've been lucky to find the spring and ball several times now when they've boinged off.

any tips for reassembly. would be a shame to have to lob it even though it's not mine

 

[John Roberts]

The dip switch on mine has been sticking occasionally on main beam, blasting it with WD40 has no effect, and if I remember correctly it looked like it was held together with tubular rivets. Googling "tubular rivets" did turn up some sources, and that's as far as I got. I expect there is some sort of tool, perhaps some kind of pliers, to do the riveting. Has anybody any experience of using these rivets? I'm sure that having a selection of various rivets would come in handy for all sorts of little low voltage electrical repairs.

If it saved me around £80 for a new switch cluster it would pay for itself pretty darn quick.

 

[electric_monk]

Don't ask Dr Farkoff..........

 

[DrFarkoff]

Don't ask Dr Farkoff..........

Oi Ya Fecker



Besides a truce has been declared twixt meself and himself

 

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well, no thanks to you lot, but i did get it back together again.

eventually

 

[Kenny]

Looked really complicated

I bet you ended up on the floor talking and looking for some little "you stupid little feckin' thing''

 

[cookie]

you must be psychic

had to buy some ball bearings too.