[Arran]

Remember that damaged cabinet?

This morning, I decided to try and glue it back together.

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It had really sprung out of place on the right side, so I am not too optimistic about this...but again, I had nothing to lose by trying. I will leave it clamped for 24 hours and find out tomorrow whether or not the gluing was successful.

Ron;
  All in all, not a great loss to technological history, or humanity, if that cabinet is beyond repair, nothing says 70's ick like simulated woodgrain vinyl over particlboard. Whenever I used to run into furniture/TV/Stereo cabinets covered with this stuff it immediately brought to mind some MacTac peel and stick vinyl shelf covering that was commonplace when I was younger, so I used to say that they were covered with MacTac. I think that it would be almost as easy to make a new box for that Sherwood out of solid wood or baltic birch plywood laminated with walnut veneer, it would look better afterward and would be more in keeping with one of those Fisher receivers from the 60's. I never have had much luck trying to glue broken particleboard back together unless it broke apart at a joint.
With regard to those two switches, if they should break or come apart again I would use a pair of machine screws and nuts of the appropriate thickness and length to replace the rivets. In fact I was sort of thinking that if that metal section on the front of each switch is thick enough it might be possible to tap the two holes that used to hold the rivets and thread a pair of screws into those.
Regards
Arran