I have two L2 510s, and have the same two problems with both of them:
1) The black rubber button you depress to turn the manual battery "ON", kept falling out. Now, for those who have seen these little suckers, imagine me, on hands and knees, in my skirt, in the dark, in the cold, with a pen-sized flashlight hanging out of my mouth, searching about 20 square-feet of black asphalt at the local Park n' Ride at 4am for that bleepin' button. Not a pretty sight. Seriously. I've had to search the entire main floor of my local community college, two aisles at the local craft store, and yes, the actual freezer at my favorite grocery store for these suckers (they always seem to pop out at the worst time... like they *know* I'll be terribly inconvenienced.) I finally lost both buttons for good, pulled the buttons out of my old set of Innovapor manual batts (the ones that both failed within one week), and peeled the edges off those and stuffed 'em in the battery holes of the two L2s. However, it's a lousy fit, they often get stuck in the "ON" position, and it just plain *looks* ugly.
2) The LED caps on the end of the batteries are also always falling out. Fortunately, these are a bit bigger than the battery button, so easier to find, but I have permanently lost one of them, and don't anticipate the other sticking around too much longer (I even tried supergluing them, which was a huge fail, since I was trying to keep the glue off the inner workings and glue plastic to metal, and the trusty 'ole glue gun, which was also a fail for the same reasons. I eventually took a sequin... yes! a sequin (well, it was either that or one of those clear plastic bubbles with the white back and a black circle bouncing around inside to make it look like a googily eye!!!), put a teensy dollop of glue gun glue on it, and stuck it to the tip of the LED light. Where it sits daintily, doing prolly nothing to keep dust, etc., out, but at least making me feel all... girlie... inside, whilst I vape.
So, my questions are: 1) has anyone else had these problems, and 2) how did *you* solve them? I haven't actually looked (mostly 'cuz I can't imagine paying shipping and handling for them) but I'm guessing you can't just buy buttons and tips for these things online, right?!
Thanks a mil!
-k-
1) The black rubber button you depress to turn the manual battery "ON", kept falling out. Now, for those who have seen these little suckers, imagine me, on hands and knees, in my skirt, in the dark, in the cold, with a pen-sized flashlight hanging out of my mouth, searching about 20 square-feet of black asphalt at the local Park n' Ride at 4am for that bleepin' button. Not a pretty sight. Seriously. I've had to search the entire main floor of my local community college, two aisles at the local craft store, and yes, the actual freezer at my favorite grocery store for these suckers (they always seem to pop out at the worst time... like they *know* I'll be terribly inconvenienced.) I finally lost both buttons for good, pulled the buttons out of my old set of Innovapor manual batts (the ones that both failed within one week), and peeled the edges off those and stuffed 'em in the battery holes of the two L2s. However, it's a lousy fit, they often get stuck in the "ON" position, and it just plain *looks* ugly.
2) The LED caps on the end of the batteries are also always falling out. Fortunately, these are a bit bigger than the battery button, so easier to find, but I have permanently lost one of them, and don't anticipate the other sticking around too much longer (I even tried supergluing them, which was a huge fail, since I was trying to keep the glue off the inner workings and glue plastic to metal, and the trusty 'ole glue gun, which was also a fail for the same reasons. I eventually took a sequin... yes! a sequin (well, it was either that or one of those clear plastic bubbles with the white back and a black circle bouncing around inside to make it look like a googily eye!!!), put a teensy dollop of glue gun glue on it, and stuck it to the tip of the LED light. Where it sits daintily, doing prolly nothing to keep dust, etc., out, but at least making me feel all... girlie... inside, whilst I vape.
So, my questions are: 1) has anyone else had these problems, and 2) how did *you* solve them? I haven't actually looked (mostly 'cuz I can't imagine paying shipping and handling for them) but I'm guessing you can't just buy buttons and tips for these things online, right?!
Thanks a mil!
-k-
