Tim,
Sorry for my delay in seeing your post. On one of them, the button started out stuck under the shell and went right back in every time I pushed it. Made the battery inoperable. The other worked fine for two days, then started firing randomly.
No thanks! On skinny batts, only the 510 has a manual switch that I like. Back to auto Kr8 batts for me (and manual mods and Fat Batts, of course).
Don,
I too apologize for not getting back sooner.
This might help you salvage a couple of those sticks. What do you have to lose?
Here's a pic of the RS808D-1 taken apart to help me make sense below.
I dropped one of my RS808's the other day after my first message to you, and then the button on it started acting funky, too. It would go under the shell when I pushed it and not pop back out, and didn't want to fire correctly when pushed. Nothing to lose, I pulled the oval, black, rubber button (center in pic) all the way out -- it comes out pretty easy without any tools if you have a bit of length on you fingernails with which to grab it. Small pliers would work, too. Nothing there to break.
Looking inside the hole, it was obvious the small
real switch, which is on a dinky circuit board, was no longer centered under the button. When I dropped it, it had landed on the end and everything inside had slid up toward the mouthpiece connector end. With just fingernail pressure again, I pulled off the gray ash tip. It is just a press-on fit. If it is on tight, the edge of a knife should get under and between it and the shell enough to pry it off. Beneath the ash tip I could see there was good bit of space in that end of the shell. So, I hit that end hard against my leg a few times and the battery and switch moved back down toward the ash end. This action put the switch slightly too far the other way in the shell. So, I just slowly pushed a bit on the end of the battery that is exposed at the ash end with the end of a retracted plastic writing pen. I watched the switch and stopped pushing when it was centered inside the button hole. All I needed to do then was press the ash back on the end, and put the rubber button back in the hole above the switch. A slightly blunted round toothpick helped with getting the edges of he rubber button poked back under the shell. The RS808 worked fine then.
Ya' might want to give that a try. As soon as you pull the rubber button off, you'll probably see if the problem is that the switch isn't centered in that area, or if the problem lies elsewhere.
I hope you find this useful.
Tim
