Fire button getting stuck
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Yup you mashed it. The contact is broken off, and you need a repair kit or send it back to Rob.
In pic 3 it looks like part of the battery contact is missing. Is that bare metal showing on the edge there, where it doesn't look like it's plated? If so, something broke clean off the battery contact.ETA: That, or the battery contact is now bent at the edge of the delrin cover from mashing.
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Yeah, it looks like it's getting stuck because part o the contact pin is either bent or has broken off, the button isn't hitting directly to depress it, instead it's getting "stuck" on the edges of where the contact pin broke off.
Rebuild kit easy fix.
Your button cover looks kinda low. That could be reason you have been having to "mash" it. Take it off, Put a peice of thread over the button (like a thin spacer) and then place the button cover back on once you rebuild your REO.
I can't say for sure with that photo, but you want to diagnose the "mashing" since you don't want to keep breaking pins either.
Rourke, if you take a look at the photo of a rebuild parts kit at reosmods.com that will also help you figger out what's wrong. That will show what a battery contact should look like. Compare it to what you are seeing on yours. (We are kinda limited here because of the size of the uploaded images.) If you battery contact looks bent compared to how it shows in the rebuild parts kit photo... that's the problem.
You have button mashingitus. Order a rebuild kit and install it. Push the button down while listening to the atty. When you hear the juice sizzle stop pushing. It takes very little force to fire the Reo, mashing the button won't make it fire better.
Please send the mod to me I will repair it and send it back asap. Please put
a note with your email address and a brief description of the problem .Also
empty any e juice in the mod and remove the bottle .It helps to put a tissue or napkin around the tube . Please clean the mod if its a mechanical mod flush the mod with hot water and soap . thank you
Reos Mods LLC
120 Ida Jim Rd
Alfred Me 04002
a note with your email address and a brief description of the problem .Also
empty any e juice in the mod and remove the bottle .It helps to put a tissue or napkin around the tube . Please clean the mod if its a mechanical mod flush the mod with hot water and soap . thank you
Reos Mods LLC
120 Ida Jim Rd
Alfred Me 04002
My button was sticking in the down position for a littel while on Saturday so I gave it a bath saturday night and on sunday morning, it seemed to be fixed. I hadn't really let it get dirty though. It gets a weekly bath and almost a daily wipe down. I'll keep my eyes on it and let you all know should this happen again. Also, my firing pin is still in good shape and I am not a masher. I know better.
Hold the mod next to your ear. Slowly press down on the fire button. As soon as you hear the atty begin to sizzle, that's how hard you need to press. If you press any harder/farther, you're a masher
You're not alone Rourke... it took me a long time to lighten up on the button... it was only when I started building my own mechanical switches on my mods that I started to be aware of how much pressure I was applying beyond what was actually needed.
Here's my anti-mashing button cover.
Now there's an idea for you Rob, if you read this. Take it and run with it if you like it.
Now there's an idea for you Rob, if you read this. Take it and run with it if you like it.
Button mashing is a natural reaction to a mod that fires weakly or intermittently. The solution is to clean and noalox or deoxit the mod rather than to press the button harder and harder.
It's a lesson that took me quite a few buttons (i think i melted about 4 or 5!) to realise - also, button covers make it easy to do. I don't use them at all anymore. But if you do - make sure they are fitted properly and you are gentler with them.
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It's a lesson that took me quite a few buttons (i think i melted about 4 or 5!) to realise - also, button covers make it easy to do. I don't use them at all anymore. But if you do - make sure they are fitted properly and you are gentler with them.
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When I get my Reo back I am not going to use the button cover for a while until I know exactly how much pressure to use. If I use the button cover at all, I think I am more likely to mash with the button cover on.
As a sidenote to this discussion: For anyone with a mechanical Grand which has the firing button lock disabled by pushing the detent pin into the button, this is a perfect scenario for a button hang-up. I speak from experience. Even the slightest protrusion of the detent pin or malformation of the button around the detent pin hole will hang up the button and risk a meltdown. If you choose to disable the locking function, remove the button and buff it smooth as a baby's behind or risk the consequences. Just sayin.
As others have said, purchase deoxit gold or use the noalox. It makes a HUGE difference.
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