Yamaha BB734a active/passive switch broken

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So, I have had the misfortune of breaking off the paddle of my Yamaha BB734a passive-active switch. I have looked at the Yamaha website and found the official Yamaha part number for the active/passive mini-toggle switch on the BB734A bass is ZF812500. They want $25 for the switch, and $19.95 to ship it! That is absurd, especially considering I’ll be replacing the broken one with the same weak over-long switch – which is likely to get broken again due to its feeble design.

(Search the web, and this is a common issue with Yamaha BB734 and BB735s.

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I searched Amazon and found (10) such switches for under $9 with free Prime shipping. However, I am leery of using cheap Chinese junk in my $900 bass, and I only want to perform this repair once.

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Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on where to get something like a high-quality Switchcraft DPDT on/on mini-style switch that isn’t going to sodomize me on shipping or require a $25 minimum purchase? Every place I’ve looked at defaults to UPS which has a minimum cost of almost $20 on a $8-10 switch. (BS on that!) :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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Nothing local but more Chinese stuff.

I’m about ready to give up. Any guess on the quality of the Chinese switches listed above?

Thank you.

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Some of the chinese parts are fine. I would just get them and be done with it. You won’t break another one unless you try.

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silly question but have you just checked amazon for a dpdt switch? they are super common.

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The blue switches above are from Amazon.

I resolved the problem by going to “Love My Switches” and ordering these:

Taiway DPDT On On Switch - Solder Lug - Short Shaft - Love My Switches

Now comes the fun of soldering this thing in without melting the switch case…

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Don’t know your skill level. But I learned by watching Phil and it’s worked out well for me.

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You would be hard pressed to melt the case. Use a heat sink if you are worried.

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I think you’ll be fine, the switch casing is pretty resilient. My soldering skills are pretty basic, and even my ham-fisted efforts didn’t manage to knacker the switch case when re-wiring my Edwards :laughing: The hardest thing I found was accessing the middle connectors on the switch - there’s not a huge amount of room to get a soldering iron in there.

Phil

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