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what about slowing Mercurys rotation, so one side always faces the Sun, then place a huge (very huge) solar sail on the outer side, anchor it somehow on the planet's surface (perhaps with carbonite nanotube like materials, like they wonna do it with the space-elevator) and pull the planet with the pressure of light, and solar winds further away from the sun, and after that spin it around to a 24h day.
new position could perhaps be the L4/5 point of Venus (if they'd have separate orbits, near each others, I'd be afraid, that venus would bias mercurys orbit, and throw him into the sun, or out of the solarsystem, or worst into the Earth)

don't know whether this is possible, to drag a planet with solar sails, someone should do the calculations..
but i guess, it would take some time 

and maybe the planet should be spinned in backwards direction, to decrease centrifugal force, while getting a 24h day (also don't know, whether that makes such a big difference..)

my two cents..

PS: I'm from germany, so please don't wonder about my english