Firedrift Button Out at Top/Bottom maybe just mine...

[Si7]

I had noticed on my Firedrift that the Third Button from left was "hanging-out" at the bottom, worked OK but looked ugly against the other two when viewed from the right angle.

Stripped it and investigated - the third button had lost one of the two retaining latches (snapped off/fatigued) This allowed the button to hang out at an angle at the bottom as there was no latch there. Probably only my machine in the whole World but here's an easy fix I came up with just in case :

Clean/degrease the inner face of the switch for glueing.

Cut a 100mm (4") cable tie to about an 8mm (5/16") tail.

Glue (cyno) this to the inner face of the pushbutton with the fat part of the cable tie head facing out (from say an imaginary centre of the button) making sure the cable tie head is just about the same up/down position as the missing/broken latch.

A 100mm cable tie head is just about perfect size to sit in the recess the busted latch was supposed to occupy.

Button will sit level ! (well mines fixed anyway )

Pics :

http://www.morso5.fsnet.co.uk/img/Fire1.jpg


http://www.morso5.fsnet.co.uk/img/fire2.jpg