1. Home
  2. Electronics Equipment
  3. I Need A Battery Spring/Plate For A Device.

I Need A Battery Spring/Plate For A Device.

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.

- snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

Reply to
DavidPI73
Loading thread data ...

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m22.aol.com:

Maybe you should contact GARMIN,who MADE the unit.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net
Reply to
Jim Yanik

[snip...snip...]

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
Reply to
Rich Webb

[snip...snip...]

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

Reply to
DavidPI73

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*

Reply to
Robert Baer

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (DavidPI73) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m17.aol.com:

From GARMIN???

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net
Reply to
Jim Yanik

I didn't, I just killfiled you. ;-)

--
Rich Webb   Norfolk, VA
Reply to
Rich Webb

ElectronDepot website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.