Tefal kettle defective: On Switch no longer works

ID: 173202

Description: Tefal Quick Kettle can no longer be turned on...

Steps:

1. Remove the Lid
2. Remove the two screws (on either side of the handle, on top)
3. Remove the Handle
4. The linkage that leads down from the 'switch' has a kind of 'joint' made of flexible plastic
5. It's obvious that something like this doesn't last forever..... bend it back and forth 1000 times and it breaks.....
6. Planned obsolescence?

7. Bend 2 new joints using copper wire

8. Drill two 0.8 mm holes, in each of the 4 plastic ends

9. Thread the wires through the holes and adjust them.
10. To make room for them, shorten each plastic tip by 1 mm

11. Attention, to test; this little red pin has to be pushed in... otherwise the switch won't click into place