Panasonic AG-1970 Eject button

[aliasnexus0]

I found a Panasonic AG-1970 for $50 on ebay and jumped on it. Everything appears to work on the unit except the eject button. The seller informed me that eject did work before shipping, and has offered to refund my money, but considering the cost and work of sending this unit back I would like to attempt to try and fix the eject button. Before even considering taking it to a repair shop, and I wouldn't be surprised if they could not fix it, is there anything I can do? I found the following from a post here about a potential fix:

Many 1980s were installed using rack mount trays, these trays used longer screws than the original cabinet screws. When removed from the rack, most sellers keep the rack but leave the four rack screws in the VCR cabinet. Without the rack, these screws drive too deeply into the cabinet, this is fine except on the front left side where a rack mount screw will interfere with the eject function: if that one screw is loosened slightly or removed, the eject "problem" disappears, and you have a perfectly-functioning VCR on the cheap!

This is the only thing I have seen so far on some sort of fix.

Thanks for the help.

[classfour]

Apparently the eject button is in a different place than my AG-1980: It's on the flip-down panel with the other controls....If the 1980 eject failed to work, there's more likely a failure of the button than a screw through it.