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Henry

Though I do have 118, it would take me removing the chassis and look at the switch to answer you, but the main thing is, this is not even important, though I think, yes - the shaft is one piece all the way through the switch.

And it is unimportant, because there is no way in holy h..ll for you to make this move well again without extracting the shaft from the barrel. You do need to fully clean old lubricant. The diluting it with PBBlaster will allow it to move some eventually (maybe?), but is not the full solution: the full solution is 1) remove the shaft altohgether (whether or not you have to remove the switch, is another matter, but I think you may have to), 2) clean the barrel fully of the old lubricant, 3) same for the shaft. 4) apply the new lubricant and re-assemble.

THis is the switch, it is 1 wafer.

   

I cannot see the back of it, so I am not sre if you could maneuver the switch so that it would be able to be pushed out without tremoving the switch and then removing the rotating contact first and only then pushing the shaft out after heating. But it should not be too bad, it's just 1-wafer switch.