Stove Fan Hack

This fan over the stove at our apartment had a broken switch.  It will start if you push the switch down but it won't stay down. So after a second or so, the switch would pop back up and the fan shuts off.  Sister Lee would stand there by the hot stove and manually press down on the switch and keep it down so the fan would keep working.  I thought "How can she cook with one hand when one hand is occupied with pushing the fan button.  I relieved her a few times and I said to myself "This is ridiculous."  We can't have 2 persons standing in front of the stove.  So I came up with idea of holding the switch down.  I cut a strip of magnetic tape, put a 1 yen coin under the tape to keep it rigid, then place the coin on top of the switch button, and finally hold the tape in place with 2 magnets.  To turn off, lift one of the magnets off the tape and the switch pops up and fan shuts off.  This was a great temporary solution until the apartment management company replaced it with a brand new fan unit (the old unit was obsolete and no parts were available).