Peter wrote:

[snip]

For all of us who contributed or lurked on this thread, it would have
been interesting if you had measured the resistance in ohms across the 2
terminals of the switches that did not work (both unpushed and pushed,
checking 2 cycles of push-release-push again-release again) versus the
one that does work and reported that here. If your trash has not been
collected, are you willing to retrieve at least one of the ones you
trashed, make the measurements, and let us know?

And check with both polarities (meter is probably using DC to measure
resistance) in case there's a diode in there.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us

"If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color." -- Mark
Schnitzius on alt.atheism