Helen Bates on mon 11 feb 02
(a little crowing here) (was - Re: Plates and platters and bats ,now
what glue???)
Hey folks!
I just have to crow a little over my latest glue job. My 10 year old
cordless handset for my kitchen wall phone which has a speaker and dialing
unit as well, had had trouble with the 6's dialing for years, and this got
worse, to the point where we dialed the wall phone then picked up the
handset to complete any calls.
Well, a few weeks ago, the handset stopped recharging. It needed cleaning
-badly-!
We had tried a new battery first, with no improvement, but it gave me the
idea that the screw to get the casing apart might be under the battery, and
so it was.
I took the casing off (I have jeweller's screwdrivers because I have always
worn glasses and used to have a clarinet, which need these tools), and there
were the circuit boards, covered in gummy grease and with lots more screws
to remove. I think there were 11 or 12 in all.
This is just the preliminary to the real story. I used my husband's
cassette-cleaning liquid and cotton-topped sticks to clean the circuit
boards, and everywhere else I could find, and just at the end, I gave the
phone a little shake, maybe looking to get rid of a speck of dust or cat
hair, I don't know.
Well, that was dumb: the solder connecting the board to the antenna failed,
and there I was with a clean phone and a broken connection. (!)
Now here's the part about the glue. My husband has a kind of adhesive
called "Seal All" (of course, I don't own stock in the company... BG). He
used it to seal holes in very fine blown glass antique christmas figural
light bulbs, the old pre - W.W. 1 German type.
I knew this glue was always a bit tacky, or tended to form long threads,
rather than running all over the place like Super or Crazy glues. I hoped I
could make the wire contact the solder tightly then put glue over it without
having the glue seep under the wire and block the metal to metal contact.
Well folks, it worked. I sat there for the 15 minutes my husband
recommended, and then placed the phone carefully supported out of harm's way
for several days.
Last week I replaced it in its place in the wall unit, and crossed my
fingers and waited. It took two days for there to be enough juice in the
battery for a dial tone, and to be able to make a call, but when I did, I
could hear and be heard, even a few rooms away from the kitchen.
It took a few more days for the battery to have enough energy to power the
transfer from wall unit talking to handset talking, if we want that.
Actually, the buttons are working pretty well now, although the "6" is still
"mushy".
:-))
Helen
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Re: Plates and platters and bats ,now what glue???
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