I wrote:
Speaking from extensive experience, if you need 2 now, plan on needing somewhere between 5 and 31 more over the next year or two.
Stewart replied:
That is my experience. I never managed to find any exact replacements here in England so I ended up replacing the mechanism with some SMT switches and using a probe to press them.
And unfortunately, the parts units you find for sale invariably have bad switches. I have more than once tried to use switches from a donor unit to repair a 1992, and they have all promptly failed during post-op testing. In one case, six successive switches failed within five presses after I installed them (that was way back before I figured out that you can replace the innards from the front, when I was desoldering and replacing the switches whole).
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