Dang! That's an ingenious fix. I also took the switch/potentiometer apart,
and figured that the slider was simply worn, so I ordered a new part from
Speed-O-Tach in California. Cost was about $26, but I can now turn the
radio off.

Good fix, Sam. Thanks for the tip.

Kevin

"radman123" > wrote in message
lkaboutautos.com...
>I came up with a fix for this problem. Once you get into the radio and get
> the volume control switch out, you can carefully cut the melted plastic
> rivits off, leaving enough to re-melt to close it back. There is a small
> white nylon plastic slider inside the mechanism that is the problem. The
> little pin on the side of the push rod slides in and out, selecting a
> different channel each push, making it stay in or out, depending on which
> little channel it goes in. Anyway, a tiny amount of white lithium grease
> applied to that little nylon slider fixes it perfectly. That slider must
> be free to move and when it gets just so dry, it refuses to move freely
> anymore. The greast fixes the problem. With some care, you can
> re-assemble the switch and remelt the plastic rivit pins to hold the
> switch together. I did it and it works like new now. Sam.
>