Vision Spinner won't light up, is it dead?

[DavidOck]

Golly, don't have any leads on fancy lanyards... I just use plain black and gray ones! Maybe check Etsy? Braid one using different color ribbons? Maybe the jewelry section at WallyWorld? Since you already have the ring for the battery, all you need is something fancy with a lobster clasp...

And an Evod with, say, a 1.8 coil, should hit pretty good on the mini. I'm guessing it's either 3.7 or 3.2 volts?

Google just came up with this - so there must be more out there as well:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BEJ1XU2

And this:
http://www.vapehut.com/Ego-lanyard-s/59.htm

I've never dealt with either, so...

 

[sandybeach]

David those are awesome, thanks! I never was a lanyard user.

Okay, I took this sucker apart. It started with the button light being solid white, not going off when I pushed it in, then flickering and going off. All the wires look like they're soldered okay. What skinny little wires! Geez. I think it's beyond hope. Trash for this one. I feel better about taking it apart, I'll cut the wires so it's not dangerous.

 

[sandybeach]

Hey david, I have some little o rings, I can make one myself! If I'm not too lazy.

 

[sandybeach]

You guys aren't gonna believe this. It works fine now that I took it apart. I guess I should have just kicked it

 

[DavidOck]

Cool! Maybe the switch was just mis-aligned, and your careful dis- and re- assembly managed to get it straight. From what I've heard, taking it apart without breaking wires is something of a feat! (And really good pics, too!)

 

[sandybeach]

You can see I scratched the heck out of it with the vise grip, even though I put a cloth under it. It was worth five minutes of work to save $24 or so. I never thought it would fix it, though.

It was easy to take apart. I just rocked the metal part back and forth until it came out. I could see that it was getting loose, so I was careful not to break the wires.

 

[sandybeach]

Now that I know how to take these apart, I took two eGo Twists apart that weren't working. Both had the black wire come out of the solder. I just make a huge mess when I try to solder. I'm not going to try to fix these.

By the way, the Vision Spinner stopped working again. Every wire looks connected, so I don't know what the heck is with it. I'm officially done trying to fix these.

But I'm glad I learned how easy it is to get the top off. If there was a button problem it would be easy to fix that. Maybe