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gerry
Scilly.Suffolk
As you can see from the link you posted, 8 speed parts are no longer available and any shifters are getting on for twenty years old now.
If you can pick up a pair of shifters cheap enough, then that will buy you some time, but the spring mount rings are on borrowed time and once they go, the shifter is toast.
If I was in your position, I'd see this incident as being Fate's way of telling you to move on to at least 9 speed, although 10 is probably better value for money.