Found a Predicta...

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You know, it looked like plastic to me as well, but she said it had been 'rebrassed' and that is why it did not match the rest of the hardware. The band is a much darker orange brass color. Thanks for the auto parts lead-can I just get this at Autozone? What should I ask/look for when there?

Well, the overwhelming opinion is to not remove the board-which being a pretty lazy fellow I am fine with. I repaired an almost identical RCA to Wa2ise's using this method and it was just fine.