Another solution is to use hermetically-sealed contacts.  I built a light-weight, single-lever key paddle using microswitches for the contacts.  It worked very well and never had problems with scratchy contacts.

http://n1al.net/ham/paddle.htm

Alan N1AL


On 10/15/2020 11:42 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
When I built a single level paddle, I decided to use silver for the contacts
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