Jeff, is this just another coinky dink or...

[AmyB66]

am I on to something.

I to have button failure from time to time. Usually, I swab out my carto connector with a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol and noalox the end cap (which you said was kinda pointless due to the metals) and I also spin my button to the right or left a few times. Normally the button goes back to working.

Move on to yesterday, dang smarkely chucks button went to heck. I used a towel to help me push it in and yes, it worked but it would have left a hole in my thumb. I went ahead and did my normal routine listed above. Still, tough button. I then took the qtip, still damp with the rubbing alcohol and cleaned the button, the black part, around the edge where it gets pushed in. Damn if it didn't just go right back to working.

So I wonder, this was the chuck that got gunked with squito spray and often I'll end up topping off, getting juice on my fingers and often I am working, get kinda grimy etc, and while I never have such a thing, some folks do get finger cheese (just icky normal body gunk) so could it be that the button just needs to get clean so it can compress properly? Or was it a fluke? It didn't seem dirty. But dang, it worked. Is this a harmful thing to do or is this something that could solve many a chuck owner's button troubles?

 

[xLowEndx]

kinda gross

 

[Ralph T]

Amy, it could have been a belly button fuzz issue also. I have heard of such things, of course I don't have that problem.

 

[notsoogood]

Amy, it could have been a belly button fuzz issue also. I have heard of such things, of course I don't have that problem.

Oh lordy!!! Not that again!!!??? Icky icky icky!!!

 

[keyzygirl]

Finger cheese?WTH is that???

 

[AmyB66]

Not quite sure but I figured there must be such a thing as finger cheez. LOL. There is face cheese, .... cheese....so I just kinda figured....it is the result of unwashed sweat. I thought everyone knew that.

Belly button lint, yep, I still am fascinated by the whole phenomenon of it.

Didn't mean to gross anyone out. I live with three men, two grown sons and a husband...none of them are fancy dudes, not a suit in the bunch. If I actually have time and socialize, I am the wife that hangs out in the garage with the guys and am not afraid to speak their language. I am not a fluff bunny therefore I know about all these things. Thankfully most of my GF's are horse people and outdoorsy too.
There are perks to this, long ago I stopped getting invited to things like candleparties, tuperware partys, purse partys and that home decor party thing.

ETA: Not cause I am gross or icky, quite the opposite, I just never fit into the housewife cliques.

 

[Poeia]

You can't fool us. We know you are gross and icky.

 

[AmyB66]

You can't fool us. We know you are gross and icky.

LOL!

Well, I was kinda tempted to go play in that water with the swamp thing.

 

[Ralph T]

Finger cheese?WTH is that???

If you have ever cleaned the rollers inside a ball mouse... Thats mostly finger cheese, dust and dandruff.

 

[AmyB66]

Love ya Ralph, I think you are the only person on earth who not only understands my weird use of words but also shares my fascination of belly button lint.

 

[Poeia]

If you have ever cleaned the rollers inside a ball mouse... Thats mostly finger cheese, dust and dandruff.

Plus whatever you ate while sitting at the computer.

 

[Xanax]

Ew finger cheese? WTF... I wash my hands like 30 times a day and use hand sanitizer inbetween washing so, I've never heard of this "finger cheese" you speak of... reminds me of another type of bodily cheese that I've heard of... barffff

EDIT: I know it's excessive, but I'm a germaphobe.

 

[AmyB66]

Ick if I know what you mean by the other Cheese Xanax, roflol.......

I am not much of a germaphobe, I actually think that is what makes you get sick, gotta build up the system so it is tough enough to attack the Cooties which are unavoidable. I work retail, have lots of animals and live in a super old house, being a germaphope would have me stalled out big time. Though I do tend to hit the hand sanitizer more frequently during flu season, I work in a drug store, get all the sickies. Yesterday I actually sprayed down a band of money I was counting because something smelled really bad and then sanitized from the elbows down....it was that gross. I always figured personal and family cooties are okay, it's cooties from strangers that wig me out big time. Some of the public I encounter are really gross and I really get creeped out when people drag their sick, coughing snotting all over the place, children into public places. Leave them at home!

Cheese references aside, I do find that wiping down the button on my chuck now and then does solve the switch not firing problem.

 

[Poeia]

There is some evidence that the increase in autoimmune diseases, which is a phenomenon mostly in developed countries, is due to excess cleanliness. You don't build up a resistance when you are a child because everything gets sanitized.

Of course the flip side of that is, in every office I've ever worked in, the people with preschool or grade school kids, are always the first to catch colds or the flu each year. Then they generously share what their kids brought home with the rest of us in the office.

 

[Xanax]

Ick if I know what you mean by the other Cheese Xanax, roflol.......

I am not much of a germaphobe, I actually think that is what makes you get sick, gotta build up the system so it is tough enough to attack the Cooties which are unavoidable. I work retail, have lots of animals and live in a super old house, being a germaphope would have me stalled out big time. Though I do tend to hit the hand sanitizer more frequently during flu season, I work in a drug store, get all the sickies. Yesterday I actually sprayed down a band of money I was counting because something smelled really bad and then sanitized from the elbows down....it was that gross. I always figured personal and family cooties are okay, it's cooties from strangers that wig me out big time. Some of the public I encounter are really gross and I really get creeped out when people drag their sick, coughing snotting all over the place, children into public places. Leave them at home!

Cheese references aside, I do find that wiping down the button on my chuck now and then does solve the switch not firing problem.

HAHA... I'm glad you caught my drift there with the cheese...

The germ thing been a problem for me since I was about 9 or so, I got REALLY sick and hospitalized with food poisoning TWICE, back to back!!! The hospital staff said it was probably from someone not washing their hands... and ever since I'm a germaphobe and don't allow anyone to cook for me unless I see them wash their hands twice. It's awful. By the way, I think I'm gonna have to try this with the Chuck, maybe that's what's wrong with my switch... build up of dust and stuff.

There is some evidence that the increase in autoimmune diseases, which is a phenomenon mostly in developed countries, is due to excess cleanliness. You don't build up a resistance when you are a child because everything gets sanitized.

Of course the flip side of that is, in every office I've ever worked in, the people with preschool or grade school kids, are always the first to catch colds or the flu each year. Then they generously share what their kids brought home with the rest of us in the office.

I know I know, I've felt so caught in the middle between "germs are everywhere you're doomed" and "sanitize too much and you'll be less immune to those germs that are everywhere". It's awful, it keeps me awake at night sometimes, lol.

It's kept me from doing a lot of things I've wanted to do actually. But hey, at least I don't have finger cheese right? Bahaha.

I guess I'll just wait until I have a kid... I bet that will cure it for me. I have a lot of friends and family that don't wash their hands like I do, well they DO but just not as regularly as they probably should and I always say to them "I don't know how you've survived this long..."