Kick 2 won't fire in Nemesis

[Completely Average]

Much much thanks for both responses. Yep, installed the fatdaddy two magnets as per the rules and it still fires standing up. With his longer contact pin in the bottom which I installed the improvement is only very slight for me with respect to throw and stiffness. Yep, it's magnet time via FT unless someone else can dream up a better solution.

Very educational!

The cheapest route would be to simply replace the spring with a stiffer one. Should be a hardware store around town that has some springs, or you could just make one with stiff enough wire. Shouldn't cost more than a dollar or two.

Not sure I'll ever understand the fascination with magnets. Seems like a complicated and expensive solution to a simple problem. But perhaps that's the car geek in me talking, I can't see replacing my car springs with magnets when popping in a new set of springs would be so much easier, cheaper, and lighter.

 

[Steamer861]

My switch was a complete mess it was crunchy and sticky it sucked I removed the spring and I added 3 magnets and it's 100% better

The cheapest route would be to simply replace the spring with a stiffer one. Should be a hardware store around town that has some springs, or you could just make one with stiff enough wire. Shouldn't cost more than a dollar or two.

Not sure I'll ever understand the fascination with magnets. Seems like a complicated and expensive solution to a simple problem. But perhaps that's the car geek in me talking, I can't see replacing my car springs with magnets when popping in a new set of springs would be so much easier, cheaper, and lighter.

 

[Completely Average]

My switch was a complete mess it was crunchy and sticky it sucked I removed the spring and I added 3 magnets and it's 100% better

Springs don't crunch or stick. They compress and decompress. That's all.

If you were having those problems then it was a fitment problem, not the spring, and probably would have been fixed with a complete disassembly and reassembly even with the spring still in. I know for a fact that the crunchiness of the button tends to come from wobble of the contact pin in the button, not the spring. If that contact pin wobbles at all then the button moves left and right and hangs on the battery rings when it's pressed.

If the contact pin is aligned straight up and down and is nice and snug with no movement then the button will slide straight up and down the shaft of the pin when pressed with no crunchy feeling and no hanging. Doesn't matter if you're using springs or magnets, it works the exact same way. It's like the strut and spring in your car, if the strut isn't properly aligned it doesn't compress right, regardless of the spring. Changing the spring to a magnet would not fix the misaligned strut, but disassembling everything and putting it back together in proper alignment would, even if you left the same springs in.