I want to back David up here on switch repair.

Tim Hannick - list member from down New Orleans way - visited my place
some time ago and repaired some of my switches. He removed them,
disassembled them, cleaned the contacts, re-assembled and tested them
and re-installed them. I was really surprised that the Germans had built
those switches so that they could be handled that way. Don't be afraid
of your switches.

John R

On 1/18/2013 1:34 PM, David Beierl wrote:
> At 03:52 PM 1/17/2013, Tom Stone wrote:
>> I have an older switch that I tried to use.  The spacing and size of
>> the two largest pins is different and there are two additional pins
>> on the newer switch.  Interesting dilemma.  I will jumper past the
>> dimmer for the time being but would prefer a switch
>
> Of course before you take the switch apart you want to verify that
> you do indeed have loss of continuity on the dimmer terminals.
>
> Yours,
> d
>