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Originally Posted by Bruce Lancaster
You can disassemble the HL switch and also the dimmer by a bit of careful prying. My experience is that the switches are very durable and the contacts are generally not damaged or burned, they are just clogged with dirt and petrified grease. A good cleaning and a bit of clean grease and they are ready for another 65 years or so.
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Or, if a dirty switch is a problem, without dismanteling it you can just squirt a bunch of WD40 into it and work it and it will clean itself up. I did that with a lot of my switches after they'd sat for 31 years. Worked fine.