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1948 GE Model 221 Aquired and Need some help with some parts

Greetings everyone, yesterday I went to a local flea market and I found a 1948 GE Model 221 AM/SW Radio is surprisingly enough in very good shape, its basically all virgin except for a few replacement tubes that were replaced sometime in the mid to late 1950s, and one of the filter cap sections being replaced within the last 15-20 years.

One thing that has me stumped is that one of the switches (I'm not sure if its the tone control switch or the band switch) is missing its linkage collar that the lever knob slips onto and is supposed to link into the switch control lever and I'm really not sure why that would of been removed or if it was accidentally left off or fell off when whoever worked on this last worked on it, and never reinstalled it, either way I need a source for that lever or a way to possibly 3-D print a new linkage lever for this radio.

Otherwise this radio is in near mint condition and the chassis has not a single spot of rust on it.

This radio actually is the same exact radio that was worked on by Mr. Carlson on his YouTube Channel a couple of weeks ago (except mine is the AM/SW version and his was just AM Only and mine has a wooden cabinet and his was a Bakelite Cabinet.)
In fact the funny part is that the repair that was done to this radio was the same exact repair that Mr. Carlson did to his radio, where he removed the bad section of the main filter cap from the circuit and replaced it with an appropriately rated filter cap which got the radio functioning again without hum and the radio was working pretty well with all of the original paper caps still in place. He was basically just trying to do a video to see what the absolute minimum it would take to get the radio up and running again, or to borrow Shango's Vernacular, a resurrection, (which he was planning on doing a proper restoration on the radio at a later time.)

Thanks for your help with this radio.
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