Quick fix on worn hat switch

[DREDIOCK]

Love the CH sticks but I have a knack for wearing out the hats. Particularly the top 8 way that I use for  views.

On taking the stick apart you can actually see a groove worn into the rear switch.
Unfortunately while I am able to get the old switch out. I havent mastered soldering a new on in and getting both connections hot enough at the same time. Plus my eyes arent what they used to be either.

So the other night I came up with a workaround. I took the post from the switch (the part that makes contact with the switch and wrapped electrical tape around it. Experimenting with it a bit I found that two wraps around the post was perfect.

Dont know how long it will last but For now it works and sure beats buying a new stick because of a single switch

[Bizman]

Love the ghetto hacks! In case the tape wears out too soon, would it be possible to slide a piece of tube over the shaft? Like a piece of the container of a ball point pen?

[DREDIOCK]

Love the ghetto hacks! In case the tape wears out too soon, would it be possible to slide a piece of tube over the shaft? Like a piece of the container of a ball point pen?

very small tolerance (gap) between the pin and the switch buttons. for example. I found 3 wraps of the tape to be too thick.

My initial idea was to place spent caps (as in caps from a cap and ball black powder gun) over the switch buttons and then a thin metal tube over the pin for a system that cant wear out. But the gap between the pin and the switches is way too small for either

[guncrasher]

Love the ghetto hacks! In case the tape wears out too soon, would it be possible to slide a piece of tube over the shaft? Like a piece of the container of a ball point pen?

you should see my headset.  7 dental floss plastic pics, hot glue and about 1/2 a roll of electrical tape.

now the tube over the shaft idea is just plain funny  .  even worst when you want to slide the container of a ball point pen.  what's wrong with the container of pencil?   





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[Randy1]

If you tin the parts you are going to connect, that helps a lot on soldering.  You just coat each connection solder then hold them together then touch your solder iron to the joint.  Before soldering use a damp sponge to clean the tip.  The tip should be nice and shinny if you tinned the tip before you used the iron.

Now instead of tape, there is heat shrink tubing.  Radio Shack may have it.

[Bizman]

now the tube over the shaft idea is just plain funny  .  even worst when you want to slide the container of a ball point pen.  what's wrong with the container of pencil?   

Oh yes, the mechanical pencils have a tube, too! Sorry, I'm old skool, my brain still considers pencils as hexagonal wooden sticks  Besides the tube inside a pencil is refillable unlike the one on a ball point pen.

And don't laugh at my pen hacks! I've fixed a few HP Pavilion power buttons - those 1"x1" blue lit ones - with a piece of the spring of a ball point pen, charging 1€ a minute for the job, rounding the sum up to the next 10€.