[Kenwood] Need TS-820 Lever Switches and TS-120/130 knobs

Thu Oct 4 11:44:53 EDT 2007

If it's similar to the paddle switches on a TS-520 that I'm familiar 
with, the paddle is a push-fit into the lever of the switch, but it 
was considered all one part. You might look in catalogs from Mouser, 
All Electronics, Marlin P. Jones, etc. and try to find a similar 
switch that could be cannibalized to get a paddle. Even if it's not 
exactly the same part, you may be able to make it work with a little 
drilling and filling with epoxy, Duco cement, or Amazing Goop glue. 
Just don't get any glue inside the toggle switch itself.
Fabricating parts this way is usually a last resort, but where 
there's a will there's a way.
BTW, as another poster wrote, I can't stand when people "part out" a 
perfectly good piece of ham gear that just needs a little know-how 
and elbow grease to get it working. Good for you that you're tyring 
to fix up that 820.
73 & GL,
Joe K9LY
At 12:33 AM -0400 10/4/07, Don wrote:
>I have a TS-820 that is missing one if the Paddle that switches the VOX
>switch. Does anyone know if the Paddle lever is replaceable or is it part of
>the electrical switch? I can change the position of the position of the
>brown switch with a pointer item. Can I get just the missing lever and it
>so, does anyone know of a source? The switches are shown as item S11-14 and
>part number S44-2020-05.
>