I bought my Provari Mini in November of 2012. My wife and I have used it pretty much continually since then. It has been dropped, kicked, sat on, drowned, lost, found, and generally tortured. At 2.5 years old, it looks pretty beaten up. The coating is worn thru in many areas. But tonite, I thought I had finally done her in.
A tumble off the kitchen counter onto the tile floor, aided by a heavy kayfun Lite on top, popped the top cap out (once again, not the 1st time) and this time, it dragged the guts with it. No biggie, it's a Provari. I looked at how it slides in, and I put the button in the hole and slid the board back in and beat the top back on. It wasn't working. Darn.
So then I pulled it back out, and realized that when I slid it in, I had sheared the little rubber button on the PCB switch off when it tried to slide onto the clear plastic push button. I got out my visor magnifier, and saw it was part of a membrane and it had ripped right off. I tried several things, none that worked. I gave it up for dead but I couldn't put it in the trash.
Picturing the tattered little edges around the edge of that rubber button, an idea came to mind. Super Glue. I put a thin ribbon of super glue around the edge of the hole that the rubber button had covered, and carefully set the rubber button in place. I gave it a half hour to make sure it was dry. Then I put a little VG on the back side of the clear plastic button to help the rubber slide, put the plastic button in the hole, tipped it ever so slight downward so as to not catch the edge of the rubber button on the PCB, and slid it back in.
Pounded the top cap back in. Put a battery in her, and as I was screwing the cap on, saw that blue pulse of heartbeat. Screwed the KFL back on her,and shazaam. Warm creamy gobs O vapor. Something, somehow is going to finally do her in. But not today.
A tumble off the kitchen counter onto the tile floor, aided by a heavy kayfun Lite on top, popped the top cap out (once again, not the 1st time) and this time, it dragged the guts with it. No biggie, it's a Provari. I looked at how it slides in, and I put the button in the hole and slid the board back in and beat the top back on. It wasn't working. Darn.
So then I pulled it back out, and realized that when I slid it in, I had sheared the little rubber button on the PCB switch off when it tried to slide onto the clear plastic push button. I got out my visor magnifier, and saw it was part of a membrane and it had ripped right off. I tried several things, none that worked. I gave it up for dead but I couldn't put it in the trash.
Picturing the tattered little edges around the edge of that rubber button, an idea came to mind. Super Glue. I put a thin ribbon of super glue around the edge of the hole that the rubber button had covered, and carefully set the rubber button in place. I gave it a half hour to make sure it was dry. Then I put a little VG on the back side of the clear plastic button to help the rubber slide, put the plastic button in the hole, tipped it ever so slight downward so as to not catch the edge of the rubber button on the PCB, and slid it back in.
Pounded the top cap back in. Put a battery in her, and as I was screwing the cap on, saw that blue pulse of heartbeat. Screwed the KFL back on her,and shazaam. Warm creamy gobs O vapor. Something, somehow is going to finally do her in. But not today.
