I’ve had this Rigid shop vacuum, from Home Depot, for about 20 years.

At some point in the last year, the switch started having issues. The vacuum would only turn on if the switch was actually pressed in, instead of toggled. I’ve never seen that happen, but I’m guessing it was from the accumulation of dirt and dust getting inside the switch body. Then the switch wouldn’t even push in, so the vacuum wouldn’t run.

I figured it would be an easy switch replacement, so I removed a bunch of screws to take off the cover. Sure enough, the switch had two wires clipped on to it, and was held in place by the case.

I had a perfect replacement, salvaged from some device I don’t remember, in my collection of electronics parts.

It fit like a glove and the vacuum turned on as if it was brand new. I screwed the case back together and called it done.