[Ron Ramirez]

The following four photos will hopefully illustrate what I am up against if I even wanted to replace the wire - which I have decided not to bother with.

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This photo shows part of the band switch assembly. The yellow arrow labeled "A4" is pointing to terminal A4 on the front wafer, which is difficult to see not only in this photo, but the others to follow. This is the terminal from which the wire came off.

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Another view of the same area. Here, I am holding a small flat-blade screwdriver; the end of this screwdriver is resting upon terminal A4 which is barely visible. You will notice a coil to the right with a slug in it - this is part of the set's permeability tuning assembly. I removed the clip holding it in place last night only to discover that the slug will not allow the coil to be removed. Therefore I am not going to force the issue. If the coil could be removed and moved out of the way, I *might* be able to reach A4 with a soldering iron.

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Another view with the end of the small screwdriver resting on A4, which can't even be seen here.

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I have a dual 15/40 watt Radio Shack pencil soldering iron. It is off and cool here, but you can see that it is too big to fit down in there where it would need to go. It would burn up coil (6), the "band spread" antenna coil, before it ever reached A4 - and, besides, the tip is too short to reach A4 anyway due to the cramped quarters here.

Personally I could live with it, although I might loose a few milliseconds of sleep every other leap year on groundhog day

I agree 100% with John's (Eliot's) assessment of the situation, and I have made an executive decision to let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.