Overland Park, KS
Quoted from dtown:How about for the spider arm contacts? Rivets on the plate are fine but how well will a drop of solder hold up if you're missing a contact or two on the arm?
That's a different issue. You need to replace the contact points in the spider arms.
PBR sells replacement points. You have a similar issue with needing to peen the flange on the backside of the blade to secure the contact point. But since the points are either copper or brass it is an easy effort on an anvil or vise. I have a conical tip awl that I first flare the ferrel side of the contact and then just flatten it with a hammer. You still need to have the spider arm/assembly out of the game/stepper to do this.
