[paulsherwin]

I'm in the process of restoring, or at least repairing, a Pye P170BQ which arrived as a wreck ages ago. The only reason I'm bothering with it is that this model was my mother's kitchen radio in the early 60s so I'd like a working one for nostalgic reasons.

There are lots of problems to sort out, but the most pressing one is the wavechange switch. This is a horrible thing made out of paxolin and bent aluminium with a few mickey mouse contacts riveted to it. The contacts are dirty (difficult to clean) but more seriously are bent, fatigued and worn.

As I see it my options are:

1. Obtain a NOS switch. Yeah, right.
2. Fix the old switch. I can't see how this could be done reliably.
3. Adapt a more modern switch to fit. The mechanics of this would be tricky and the originality of the set would be lost (though it's a poor example anyway).
4. Hard wire the original switch to LW or MW - the drawbacks of this are obvious.

Does anybody have any opinions or suggestions?