I looked over the three broken Beomaster 4400 power on/off switch components. That included two sets of pretty badly charred contacts. When I first looked at them I figured I would just toss them away. Fortunately I waiting and thought about it more. I also did a little research and confirmed that I can't just go find and purchase replacement contacts. The best thing would to be to try and salvage what I have. Then I remembered one of the most important tools in the workshop...the Dremel.
I used the Dremel and an ultrasonic cleaner to refurbish the damaged switch contacts. The results came out pretty good I think. I finished up the cleanup with a Deoxit treatment on the contacts and here is what they look like now.
Here are the cleaned up switch housings and actuators.
I have a decent selection of parts now to come up with a working Beomaster 4400 power on/off switch.
This set of components looks like my best bet.
The large switch housing piece has the hole in it from a burned contact but the rest of it looks pretty decent. After I re-install the contacts I can fill that hole with some epoxy.
For mating the two switch housing halves I can use a bead of hot glue again but I am thinking about drilling and tapping three M2 screw holes where the wide part of the housings (where the old mating tabs are). If I go that route I will use nylon M2 screws to join the parts.
Once I have the stationary switch contacts pressed back into the smaller housing I will solder on some connection wires to use when I place the switch back into the Beomaster. I will make sure I protect the plastic switch housing when doing that soldering this time around.
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