do you think its hurt

Bill I get the impression you are generally pretty picky. I, being the low buck guy I am, would just splice new wire on and see if it works. you could do the same, if it works now, I doubt it will be "more likely" to fail down the road.

But if this is one of your typical "really nice" restore projects, it might be cheaper in the long run to replace. Yeh. Not much help