Motorola 7-VT2 worth restoring ?

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I'm not one to give up easily so I stayed up late tonight and repaired that broken switch wafer.

Here's one of my reference photo so I can put it back in properly



It wasn't too hard to remove, but I'd hate to do it without the benefit of a digital camera.
Repairmen must have had great memories back in the day



The offending deck is on the right. The phenolic wafer snapped in two locations.



The tip of the fine-tuning shaft has also broken off



I used a couple drops of super-glue to hold the pieces together. Then, some quick set epoxy for strength. I used a toothpick to apply it to avoid getting any on the contacts.



Finally, I used a little contact cleaner on those silver contacts. Seems good as new. Time will tell.

I'll deal with that fine tuning shaft later. It can be removed fairly easily even when it's back in the set.