The Don has landed :D

[Chrissie]

I know exactly what you mean about the Don button Rog. Although it's fairly easy to adjust it, I can't always get my head round the rhyme or reason for which way it sometimes needs adjusting

[blakey]

Oct 31, 2011 20:18:30 GMT Chrissie said:

I know exactly what you mean about the Don button Rog. Although it's fairly easy to adjust it, I can't always get my head round the rhyme or reason for which way it sometimes needs adjusting

The little screw is what pushes the battery up to the connector and the spring on the end of it both holds the tension and provides a return for the button, batteries are different sizes so all you need to do is push the button with an attie or carto connected and turn the little screw till the attie fires and let the button go- job done

[Chrissie]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing Blakey But sometimes, the button seems to stick & other times I can't get the lock function to work

[rog]

Yes there's the little screw you adjust with a screwdriver to accommodate different sized batteries, have had no probs with that as such. What I was referring to was the entire base unit (the brass bit) which you can unscrew from the lower body (to clean it for example). I noticed at one point it wasn't making contact well when the button was pressed and then realised the problem wasn't that the screw needed adjusting it was rather that the entire brass housing had unscrewed slightly. A few turns of this with my hand and it was fine but it could lead some to think the small screw needed readjusting if they didn't realise the housing was loose.

[blakey]

Oct 31, 2011 22:32:10 GMT rog said:

Yes there's the little screw you adjust with a screwdriver to accommodate different sized batteries, have had no probs with that as such. What I was referring to was the entire base unit (the brass bit) which you can unscrew from the lower body (to clean it for example). I noticed at one point it wasn't making contact well when the button was pressed and then realised the problem wasn't that the screw needed adjusting it was rather that the entire brass housing had unscrewed slightly. A few turns of this with my hand and it was fine but it could lead some to think the small screw needed readjusting if they didn't realise the housing was loose.

Yeah, I new what you meant rog, I was just explaining to chrissie.
If you remove the battery and push the switch in then give it one quick and hard clockwise turn you'll find that it'll stay put nicely, I've never had a problem since using this method mate.

[blakey]

Oct 31, 2011 22:16:05 GMT Chrissie said:

Yeah, that's what I've been doing Blakey But sometimes, the button seems to stick & other times I can't get the lock function to work

Sounds like the switch needs cleaning out chrissie, or maybe after the attie fires then give the screw another half turn so that there's a bit more tension on the spring to force the switch open so that the lock can be turned because It could be that the button isn't retreating far enough for the ball inside the switch to lift out of it's hole.

[rog]

Oct 31, 2011 22:54:03 GMT blakey said:

Yeah, I new what you meant rog, I was just explaining to chrissie.
If you remove the battery and push the switch in then give it one quick and hard clockwise turn you'll find that it'll stay put nicely, I've never had a problem since using this method mate.

I'll try that, thanks for the tip

[Lilac]

and a blast of WD40 into the little hole next to the threads of the switch works wonders for a sticky switch Chrissie, give it a good work in by pushing button in and out a good few times, then wipe off excess.