Fixing an Ego battery button

[Duffloop]

Hi all,

I managed to solder the poxy wires back together in this ego and got it working again - huzzah!

the bad news is HTF to get the original button back in?

Resorted to a rotting rubber off a pencil ;-)



When you push it all back together the plastic bit catches on the actual button thing on the circuit board. Can't figure how they got it in there in the 1st place...

Has anyone ever done it?

 

[Blossom]

Sorry, can't help, but thought I'd bump this for you as more people may be online now!

 

[Chegs]

I used tweezers to place the plastic button in its hole,then slid the PCB back in and when it came to the button+switch on the PCB interfering with each other,I used a tiny screwdriver to operate the switch which then means the 2 have literally gnats bollocks clearance.I did start wishing God had equipped me with more than one pair of hands though(even though I doubt there's room for more hands)Or you could create the clearance by filing a fraction off the peg on the button.

 

[Duffloop]

I used tweezers to place the plastic button in its hole,then slid the PCB back in and when it came to the button+switch on the PCB interfering with each other,I used a tiny screwdriver to operate the switch which then means the 2 have literally gnats bollocks clearance.I did start wishing God had equipped me with more than one pair of hands though(even though I doubt there's room for more hands)Or you could create the clearance by filing a fraction off the peg on the button.

hmm file down the plastic huh - nothing to lose!

cept i'm wazzed at the mo so will leave it till the morn / aft

cheers!

 

[Miss Pepper]

hmm file down the plastic huh - nothing to lose!

cept i'm wazzed at the mo so will leave it till the morn / aft

cheers!

How you getting on with fixing it?

 

[Duffloop]

How you getting on with fixing it?

Just got to it...

I filed down a wedge on the inner button prong and it slipped in easy - huzzah - cheers all.

 

[Miss Pepper]

Duffloop phew

 

[Chegs]

Just got to it...

I filed down a wedge on the inner button prong and it slipped in easy - huzzah - cheers all.

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Awesome,now see if you can find a way to fix my Ego batteries please,they both decided to stay in the "fire" position shortly after I'd repaired the broken wires.

 

[Duffloop]

Awesome,now see if you can find a way to fix my Ego batteries please,they both decided to stay in the "fire" position shortly after I'd repaired the broken wires.

Does it fire with the button out? (I mean with the button physically out and removed)

 

[Chegs]

If I connect the battery to the PCB,it works as it should for all of 3 presses....then it just locks in fire mode & refuses to cease fire.As they aren't man enough to run my attys for very long,I did replace them with a Vamo & a battery box containing old laptop batteries.The battery in one was smaller than a fecking tip-light for my fishing rod,the other wasn't much bigger(cheap supplier as they were both supposed to be 650 mah+)