Segelei ZMax v3 Telescope flat top trouble - button/PCB shifted

[liquidcola]

My Zmax mini had the same issue. I came up with a quick and dirty fix that seems to work pretty well. I took the white rubbery "disc with a hole in it" from the tip of an old cartomizer and shoved it up in between the bottom of the switch/pcb and the inside of the tube. It's the perfect size, and the pcb gets pushed up a little bit so the switch has a better chance of making contact. Clicky feel is back, and there's no risk of shorting anything out because the rubbery part is not conductive.

 

[sonicdsl]

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[DaxFX]

My buton is like that also, i have the moon inside, but what is worse my ego threading are loose and canslide up and down on the center pole..




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[look30]

So here's my workaround, which is so far working quite well. It's not quite the perfect fix I was hoping for (i.e. full repair -- I never heard back from Ace of Vapes), but it is working quite well and the internals no longer shift under pressure.

As stated earlier, pressure on the top battery terminal was causing the PCB and button to shift, and for the device not to fire properly due to this. With the battery removed, the internals returned to a much more normal position, without the huge crescent visible inside the button, as well as a firmly clicking button.

I removed the battery and agitated the device until the button returned to a semi-normal position, where I could hear and feel a satisfying click of the button. I then wrapped a rubber band around the device/button in order to apply pressure to the button to minimize shifting while I was handling it. Using a toothpick, I applied two beads of epoxy: one bead around the outside perimeter of the black plastic disc (affixing it permanently to the battery tube); and another around the outside of the battery terminal (affixing it permanently to the black plastic disc), using care not to cover the terminal itself.

Once the epoxy cured, nothing is shifting anymore, the button fires with a satisfying click. I also compressed the spring in the tailcap slightly to minimize the pressure against the battery terminal.

From the photo you can tell that the button position is still slightly off-center, but I'll take function over aesthetics any day.

The ZMax is once again performing to my satisfaction. Period.

TheSovereign

Bang on! Any news on how is this faring after two months ?

 

[TheSovereign]

Bang on! Any news on how is this faring after two months ?

I wound up opening the device, properly repositioning the PCB and then epoxying the hell out of it directly (as per post #20)... that fixed it permanently.

 

[munsterrr]

I wound up opening the device, properly repositioning the PCB and then epoxying the hell out of it directly (as per post #20)... that fixed it permanently.

Any "DIY" or "how to" take apart the v3? had the same problem for a while now.