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Offline egotrippin

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N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:27:11 »
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this.  I just started swapping keys on a poker and I think my clumsy ham hocks already broke something.  I'm probably freaking out over something easy to fix but I'm not sure how.   :confused:







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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:29:19 »
 Just clip the wire back into the slot.
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:32:04 »
Quote from: laffindude on Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:29:19
Just clip the wire back into the slot.

I've been fumbling with it but I feel like a fat kid trying to push a square peg through a round hole.  I didn't know if there was a trick of some sort - I'll keep poking and prodding...
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:35:02 »
Just take something with a thin enough blunt end and push it down into the slot at an angle from the front.
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:36:15 »
It kinda looks like the clip that stabilizer snaps into is broken.  To help, however, you should be able to grip the stabilizer stem with a pair of pliers and line all your holes back up and be ok.  Or do like I did and remove it since that's just a 1.75x key
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:46:35 »
Thank you for the suggestions and thank you for tolerating what is probably a ridiculous question (I feared ridicule).  I couldn't figure out if it was broken or what because it wouldn't go in on the left side.  After fiddling with it I noticed the two sides were at different heights.  The side (stabilizers?) of the switch have two different heights depending on where you put the metal clip.  I pulled the clip out entirely, leveled the two sides to match the height of another switch, and put it back in. Ta-Da!
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:48:36 »
You should get some fancy klaxon keys for that new board.  Be the third person in DFW to get them.  Hurry though, technically, I closed orders already.
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:58:21 »
Quote from: egotrippin on Sat, 02 February 2013, 01:46:35
Thank you for the suggestions and thank you for tolerating what is probably a ridiculous question (I feared ridicule).  I couldn't figure out if it was broken or what because it wouldn't go in on the left side.  After fiddling with it I noticed the two sides were at different heights.  The side (stabilizers?) of the switch have two different heights depending on where you put the metal clip.  I pulled the clip out entirely, leveled the two sides to match the height of another switch, and put it back in. Ta-Da!
You probably were sticking the wire into the upper blind hole on the cruciformed part.
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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 02:04:49 »
its supposed to look like this. right under the tabs.


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Re: N00B without opposable thumbs possibly breaks a switch - Help!
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:36:14 »
hahahahaha.. how did this happen? ;D
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