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sv9cvk:

--- Quote from: z1100r on April 08, 2011, 12:03:50 PM ---
 Those bloody switches are a pain.....in fact the whole switchgear is a pain. I seriously thought about using a set of a CBX750 I have with the coke lever built in. I stuck with the originals in the end because they weren't made of plastic and I could polish them.

 Man what a pain putting them back together again....fiddly or what...!! micro bloody surgury....I had my head magnifier thing on, a high power angle poise, tweezers, and mini screwdrivers...all it needed was for someone to shout out "SWAB".
  The starter button caused me the most grief...!!! I hate that thing.

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You are right..!
It's a pain putting them back together but after 3 of 4 times its easier ( but not a piece of cake)  ;D  ::)
I have restore 5 sets of these switches (most of them twice ...or more...)  >:(
but every time is hard...

MickP:
I finally got it done this afternoon, in a cold garage as the sun was beating down outside.

I ended up drilling out the old screw, then re drilling the bolt that holds the horn button in place and replacing the screw with a larger one. What a nightmare, whoever designed that set up should be made to fix one of those things thirty years after it was made to see how difficult it is.

It was pretty satisfying to get it working again though. I just gotta sort out my headlight switching between hi and lo now, after all the exploratory surgery I've just done that should be a piece of cake.

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