Tascam DR-07 SD card audio recorder

A bag of bits to deal with , someone thought epoxying a SM switch back onto the pcb was enough and then could not reassemble the Chinese block puzzle. I managed to work out how to get the meshes back into the mic housings and the

2-mic cross- yoke assembly back into the main body, despite never seeing the original disassembly sequence. As the usual incompetent "designer" , no point in replacing as "designed". This sw is only soldered at the usual SM 3 miniscule pads to the pcb with no extra moulding around it to resist any excessive finger pressure. So come flat battery and nothing at switch on , the usual owner thought process is press the button harder. Oddly there is quite a bit of space to play with and a larger switch can go in there , mechanically decoupled from the pcb via 3 wires of course, but I'm wondering what sort of fixing. 2 screws through the body to properly anchor some mount behind a bigger more conventional stemmed click switch ?
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I forgot the important point, these switches are soldered side-on to the board not large face to the board , so a turning moment of half-width times finger pressure to break the solder

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Orange silicon dimple cut from inside a scrapped R/C zapper , with the conductive pad cut away, seated in the casing hole and larger thru-pcb click switch mounted inside it, fixed to the case , not the pcb. Wired to the pcb pads, Looks better than the original , and beneficially now more recessed and hopefully will last longer than the original

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A bit disconcerting on first powering up, not seeing how these operate normally. Needs 3 second hold down on the momentary sw or just a brief line on the LCD and brief flash of the backlight and peak LED. There will be thousands of these abandoned by owners , for anyone who finds one and is prepared to get inside and do a fairly simple repair,

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