Push button magnetic base repair

[SammieQ]

Help lads? I've acquired an old Eclipse push button mag base, with a badly jammed button. So, it won't switch on. Has anyone taken one of these apart? Or, got a parts diagram?

Sam, also known as "Q".

PS Eclipse 403

 

[New_Guy]

not sure exactly what you have but if it wont turn on then its probably been dropped and the magnet broken if it can be fixed i have no idea how to do it

 

[kendo]

Hi Sammie
I have two or three of this type of magnetic base, one of which the
button was jammed, all i did was to squirt some penetrating oil down the sides
of the button, leave for a while then gently tap it backwards and forwards until
it freed up. You could give this a try,as there is no way of dismantling one of these.
Hope this helps ?
Ken

 

[SammieQ]

Thanks New_Guy and Ken. I have marinaded it in WD40 and 3in1, so far, no joy. I am considering Dremelling off the rivets and prizing it apart. Let you know how that does. I have two other 'rotary switch' versions and I got the WIKI page on them; works by rotating a version of a keeper plate internally, but I suspect there is a subtly different mechanism inside these button ones and I want to wreck as little as possible.

"Q"