01-19-2018, 11:19 PM
I thought that hand-cutting the glass with the diamond blade in the coping saw frame would be safer than the other methods, considering the tremors in my hands. It wasn't really bravery, ha-ha-ha, just a matter of minimizing the risk of failure.
I sure wish that I'd done more research and found that custom lengths were readily available
The reader head was a strange looking mechanism and the problem was even stranger. There were a couple of polished balls (eg ball bearing types) inside it, one of which was fastened to a torsion spring. Looked like a round sinker hooked to the leader on a fishing tackle rig.
The normal seat for the ball was in a spherical pocket from which it had slipped. The fix was to hold the ball into the socket while keeping the circuit board perpendicular to the reader head and slipping the assembly back into the extrusion. It took three or four tries but not much time at all. The seller was great about responding quickly with detailed advice !
I sure wish that I'd done more research and found that custom lengths were readily available
The reader head was a strange looking mechanism and the problem was even stranger. There were a couple of polished balls (eg ball bearing types) inside it, one of which was fastened to a torsion spring. Looked like a round sinker hooked to the leader on a fishing tackle rig.
The normal seat for the ball was in a spherical pocket from which it had slipped. The fix was to hold the ball into the socket while keeping the circuit board perpendicular to the reader head and slipping the assembly back into the extrusion. It took three or four tries but not much time at all. The seller was great about responding quickly with detailed advice !