Just give a tug on the switch housing, it'll come out; just watch out for the spring...

Here's what it looks like disassembled:

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Hopefully no one takes this the wrong way, but I'm going to say the person that made the video is trying to sell switches.

Do any of you really think that Bally/Williams would have put switch assemblies in 100s of thousands of games for over a decade, all of which were designed to be installed on location if a field service tech couldn't replace the START lamp without having a special tool?

Are they tight fitting? Yes. Are they supposed to be? Yes. Why, because they were designed to work 10's of thousands of times without breaking.

GPS your switch assembly is likely fine, put an incandescent lamp in it and press on.

The image below is the exact same switch assembly from my previous post; the plastic parts were all cleaned with simple green, the metal parts (brass terminals and spring) were put in my parts tumbler, the lamp and paper "START" Label were replaced; the switch was also replaced with a new once since it was original to the machine, had corroded terminals, and the decision was made before restoration began that ALL mechanical switches were being replaced with new ones.

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