Another suicide problem (battery door screw?)

[Bob]

Right bear with me on this one, when i've put all the internals into one half of my suicide shells and try and fit the 2 halfs together after the entirety of aris 141 part 1 had gone past i had still failed to get the 2 halfs together.

I've found out the reason for this is that the board does not fit into the grove it is supposed to due to the soldering on the back.

The grove the board is supposed to sit in is flush with the back of the bay that the board sits in

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and the soldering on the back of the board pushed it out slightly so the board will fit in on one side but be angled enough so that it hits the small stop designed to hold the board in place, any idea of what to do?

I got the Reloader B brand new so there has been no tinkering done to it it is the stock soldering.

Anyoe else have this problem? The board worked fin the the previous 3 sets of standard shells i have used.

Ideas i have had are:

1) Scratch a small whole into the plastic where the soldering lies so the back of the board will sit flush with the wall

2)remove one sides groves, this isn't realy a good idea as then the board is not secure and the board can push against the button possibly turning itself off.

Any ideas (Dskize you've been very helpful so far today any more card up your sleave?)

 

[Bob]

SHows the angle that the board wants to sit at.

Shows th gap between board than the back wall the of the shell (there should be no gap)

Shows the little *******s that are causing the problems (the small soldering sticking ou tfrom the right hand side of the board).

 

[Dskize]

pair of flush cut snips and chop down the solder

just dont go to far

 

[Bob]

just dont go to far

Yeah, will have to got get a pair of them,

any advice on how far is to far?

 

[Dskize]

if the component falls off the other side of the PCB ...you've gone too far...

just chop a 1/2 mm down and see if it fits ..then repeat

 

[Tom Allen]

Melt the plastic out of the way of the solder point, so the board sits better, with the soldering iron.

 

[Bob]

Right got the board in (in one piece ) nad ave put it together. The next problem on my list is there doesn't seem to be anything for the battery door screw to screw into, just goes into a hole in the plastic. All the nuts on my suicide shells were not fitted on and i have one spare but there doesn't ssem to be a grove for it to sit in lid with the rest. I realy don't want to have to do an egg batery door mod to it so Mr Dskize anymore help

 

[Dskize]

theres two cut-outs in the shells so when you close the shells together they trap the nut below the bit with the hole

piss poor peice of design IMO cant think why hybrid didnt fix the nuts...i used superglue ..for the battery door glue to one side only

 

[Bob]

Yeha would have expected more from them, so there is one that the front lid screw fits into where is the other on located?

 

[Dskize]

below that in between the shells actually cut out from the plastic ..if you take one half off and look along the edge of the half shell below the hole at te batery door you will see where the cut out is.you have to fit it as your putting the bottom half of the shells together...it will become clear when you take the two bottom halfs appart again..this one caught me out first time aswell..

it actually sits inside the shells as opposed to the others which have a raised molded area for the nuts to sit in