As long as I've had my PrecisePluses, I've never taken the button all the way apart. It's a simple ingenious design. Here's how it looks:
Even then I think you can take it further apart - I remember the very first one I got, the 18500, came with an optional stiffer little spring affair which apparently goes under the little ball-bearing assembly. I still have it around here... somewhere.
Reason I'm bringing this up is that if you wash the button in water or an ultrasonic cleaner, you may want to take the slider off and get in there and dry out the bearing area. I was inspecting one of my buttons and noticed a little rust on the flat slider area, when I took it apart I found that the dark ring which retains the ball bearing had rusted a tad and leached it out onto the slider surface. None of that has any effect on performance at all but it's something I certainly wasn't aware of.
Who else has never taken the time to remove the slider? If you want to, there's nothing to be afraid of; nothing's going to pop out and fly across the room.
Even then I think you can take it further apart - I remember the very first one I got, the 18500, came with an optional stiffer little spring affair which apparently goes under the little ball-bearing assembly. I still have it around here... somewhere.
Reason I'm bringing this up is that if you wash the button in water or an ultrasonic cleaner, you may want to take the slider off and get in there and dry out the bearing area. I was inspecting one of my buttons and noticed a little rust on the flat slider area, when I took it apart I found that the dark ring which retains the ball bearing had rusted a tad and leached it out onto the slider surface. None of that has any effect on performance at all but it's something I certainly wasn't aware of.
Who else has never taken the time to remove the slider? If you want to, there's nothing to be afraid of; nothing's going to pop out and fly across the room.
