I don't think its a lid switch issue....if that was a broken lid switch, it would not spin at all.....
what he has here is a timer/control board issue, not pausing to shift into spin...
I too had this set in 1988, and had this same issue, you had to SLAM the lid down to get it to spin....first they replaced the voltage regulator, it worked for a while, then did it again, then the boards had to be replaced, worked fine from there on...
I had two of these sets, 1988 and 1995.....there were pros and cons to both, but I liked the 88 a little bit better