I Need A Battery Spring/Plate For A Device.

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DavidPI73

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I have a portable electronic navigation system - a Pilot III from Garmin- which
I use to find my way around the counties in the state where I work. It operates
via batteries or by pluging it into the cigarette lighter.

While using the navigation system, the batteries exploded. As I removed the
batteries from the battery compartment, I accidently broke off the 1
inch-by-half inch metal plate -with half-inch springs on it- attached to the
edge of the battery compartment. I lost that part and and I need it replaced.

I have been to Radio Shack, an auto parts accesory store, and a hardware store
and none of them have that piece.

Does anyone know how and where I can get this simple piece that has been
getting considerbly more difficult to obtain than I had anticipated? Your help
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

-DavidPI73@aol.com
 
davidpi73@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote in
news:20041030202743.08561.00000822@mb-m22.aol.com:

I have a portable electronic navigation system - a Pilot III from
Garmin- which I use to find my way around the counties in the state
where I work. It operates via batteries or by pluging it into the
cigarette lighter.

While using the navigation system, the batteries exploded. As I
removed the batteries from the battery compartment, I accidently broke
off the 1 inch-by-half inch metal plate -with half-inch springs on it-
attached to the edge of the battery compartment. I lost that part and
and I need it replaced.

I have been to Radio Shack, an auto parts accesory store, and a
hardware store and none of them have that piece.

Does anyone know how and where I can get this simple piece that has
been getting considerbly more difficult to obtain than I had
anticipated? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

-DavidPI73@aol.com
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Maybe you should contact GARMIN,who MADE the unit.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net
 
On 31 Oct 2004 00:27:43 GMT, davidpi73@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote:

I have a portable electronic navigation system - a Pilot III from Garmin- which
I use to find my way around the counties in the state where I work. It operates
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Please learn to cross-post (one message to several newsgroups) rather
than multi-post (the identical message, one at a time, to several
newsgroups).

Doing so keeps all of the responses together in a single thread,
regardless of the group in which a respondent first saw it.
Additionally, any good usenet client can recognize the cross-posting
and not display it when it's seen in subsequent newsgroups.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
Please learn to cross-post (one message to several newsgroups) rather
than multi-post (the identical message, one at a time, to several
newsgroups).

Doing so keeps all of the responses together in a single thread,
regardless of the group
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[snip...snip...]

And where did you say I could get this dual coiled battery contact that I need?
 
DavidPI73 wrote:
I have a portable electronic navigation system - a Pilot III from Garmin- which
I use to find my way around the counties in the state where I work. It operates
via batteries or by pluging it into the cigarette lighter.

While using the navigation system, the batteries exploded. As I removed the
batteries from the battery compartment, I accidently broke off the 1
inch-by-half inch metal plate -with half-inch springs on it- attached to the
edge of the battery compartment. I lost that part and and I need it replaced.

I have been to Radio Shack, an auto parts accesory store, and a hardware store
and none of them have that piece.

Does anyone know how and where I can get this simple piece that has been
getting considerbly more difficult to obtain than I had anticipated? Your help
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

-DavidPI73@aol.com
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If all else fails, consider making one.
Take the spring from a battery holder, selected for similar spring
size.
Note the rivit is the only part easily solderable.
Get a piece of copper, brass or galvanized sheet or shim and cut to
desired size.
Solder the rivet part of the spring at the desired place on the
trimmed sheet.
*Done*
 
davidpi73@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote in
news:20041031001652.01525.00002917@mb-m17.aol.com:

Please learn to cross-post (one message to several newsgroups) rather
than multi-post (the identical message, one at a time, to several
newsgroups).

Doing so keeps all of the responses together in a single thread,
regardless of the group

[snip...snip...]

And where did you say I could get this dual coiled battery contact
that I need?
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From GARMIN???

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net
 
On 31 Oct 2004 04:16:52 GMT, davidpi73@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote:

Please learn to cross-post (one message to several newsgroups) rather
than multi-post (the identical message, one at a time, to several
newsgroups).

Doing so keeps all of the responses together in a single thread,
regardless of the group

[snip...snip...]

And where did you say I could get this dual coiled battery contact that I need?
Click to expand...
I didn't, I just killfiled you. ;-)

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
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