I just arrived home from a friend's house where we were discussing the "old-MB" and how switches and the hard core electronics seemed to be fashioned to military spec's. I told him the prior to fixing humans.... I used to fix electronic stuff.
Perhaps, I have found a "cottage industry" in refurbing old MB electronics and switches etc...
On the site:
http://www.mindspring.com/~houlihan/merc/cruise.htm
It discusses "resoldering" the entire board. Please use care when resoldering the back of any IC chip. most logic chips don't take to much overheating before they "crap-out". Use some kind of heat sink on the front side of the board on the chip's "spider legs" to dissipate extra heat before it reaches the component.
Considering the comment about "burnt parts", every electronic device/component is manufactured with a little "puff-of-smoke" built into it. If you let the "puff-of-smoke" out of the component, it will no longer work.
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