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Title: Stuck Battery/Speaker? Easy and CHEAP solution! Post by: cujoe_da_man on April 01, 2015, 06:28:52 PM If you were one of the lucky few to get your saber and find it an absolute pain to get the batteries out, I came up with a quick and cheap solution! This actually started off as another idea when the double-sided tape holding the PCB board to the battery pack quit holding, I was thinking of putting a rubber band around it to hold it. After ordering a grab bag saber this week, I noted the use of some very thin Velcro strapping around the batteries and this got me thinking.
What I picked up is a double pack of Velcro cord straps and it is super thin, no fuzzy stuff. I picked this up at Home Depot, but I'm sure other places carry it, I just happened to be down that aisle and there it was, this cost me $6. I did not use an entire strip, ended up cutting off about 2 inches, but that got me to thinking about some kind of pull-tab and it hit me, I was holding one in my hand! (http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa95/cujoe_da_man/b155e13b-0cce-4c07-b038-83874253977c.jpg) (http://s199.photobucket.com/user/cujoe_da_man/media/b155e13b-0cce-4c07-b038-83874253977c.jpg.html) You can see here, the one strap holding the battery pack to the PCB board, along with another strap placed just in between the two ends: (http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa95/cujoe_da_man/bound.jpg) (http://s199.photobucket.com/user/cujoe_da_man/media/bound.jpg.html) And here, I have cut off couple of inches to ensure that the tab doesn't bunch up with the pommel on: (http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa95/cujoe_da_man/tab.jpg) (http://s199.photobucket.com/user/cujoe_da_man/media/tab.jpg.html) So, that's it, simple, but effective. Now I feel a bit more secure about hitting things with the blade and not fearing for the PCB board being bounced around, plus getting to the batteries is sooooo much easier now (next time I'll get the blasted recharge port :P ). If I had to do it again, I'd plan it better so that I can use the end I cut off the battery strap and use it for the pull tab, but that's for the future. Hope this helps someone! Title: Re: Stuck Battery/Speaker? Easy and CHEAP solution! Post by: cujoe_da_man on April 01, 2015, 09:31:46 PM Also, if a US mod sees this and decides this is something they could work off from for future sabers, you're more than welcome to, I'd love to see something like this implemented and used if it helps people :D
Title: Re: Stuck Battery/Speaker? Easy and CHEAP solution! Post by: tutzdaman on May 02, 2015, 02:26:18 AM Very cool! Is it difficult fitting the speak back into the hilt with that tab over the lip of the speaker?
Title: Re: Stuck Battery/Speaker? Easy and CHEAP solution! Post by: Chuntington2013 on May 06, 2015, 05:32:22 AM Not sure if it is too late. I use a piece of yarn strung through holes in the bottom of the battery pack.
(http://i.imgur.com/MvwIR9y.jpg?1) (http://i.imgur.com/jkcuKMV.jpg?1) (http://i.imgur.com/JQAF1Qc.jpg?1) (http://i.imgur.com/hw9eiYp.jpg?1) If you have one with sound, you may be able to get away with looping it like this - (http://i.imgur.com/WLlRYIA.jpg?1) I got tired of trying to pull it out of my Aeon V4 whenever I needed to change colors. My Guardian with sound isn't nearly as troublesome so it doesn't have one. |