 | | 
05-24-2008, 12:17 PM
|
#1 | | Webmaster
Director
Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days |
I consider myself a fairly intelligent guy....most of the time.
For the life of me I can't figure out how to access the battery compartment on these HF calipers - http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93293
For what I paid for them they might be disposable 
Help, I'm feelin' really dumb here (so I am posting my stupidity for the whole world on the Internet  )
Dave 
__________________   Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
Last edited by DaveO; 05-25-2008 at 12:21 AM.
|  
| | |
05-24-2008, 12:20 PM
|
#2 | | Secretary
Moderator
Name: Doug Robinson City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.92 over 180 days |
Dave:
I had a similar problem with a pair I bought at WC. The battery compartment is near the bottom of the head. I tslides out. I had to pry it with a very small screw driver. I went slow so as not to damage the unit. Luckily it worked.
Doug
__________________
Doug
Undergoing yet ANOTHER shop reorganization!
| |
| | |
05-24-2008, 12:39 PM
|
#3 | | Director
Name: George City: Oxford State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 69 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.84 over 180 days |
Immediately to the right of the display is a series of ribs (the long ones). Press down with your thumb on the ribs and slide to the right.
Not that I'm so smart, I just went out to the shop and read the instruction sheets. 
George
__________________
2B1ASK1
| |
| | |
05-24-2008, 10:27 PM
|
#4 |
Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.69 over 180 days |
__________________  " I get knocked down but I get up again" - Chumbawamba | |
| | |
05-24-2008, 10:51 PM
|
#5 |
Name: Robert City: Matthews State: NC County: Union Join Date: Feb 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.60 over 180 days |
I don't know a guy named " a moron". Is he new here?  | |
| | |
05-24-2008, 11:03 PM
|
#6 | | Webmaster
Director
Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days |
Originally Posted by gator  Immediately to the right of the display is a series of ribs (the long ones). Press down with your thumb on the ribs and slide to the right.
Not that I'm so smart, I just went out to the shop and read the instruction sheets.
George Bingo!!! George, that's it. I saw no seam or any indication that that was a separate piece or movable at all.
You are pretty smart....you saved the instructions and was able to find them again. I would like to think that I saved them, but I can't find them 
THANKS!!!
Dave
__________________ Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools.
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
| |
| | |
05-24-2008, 11:34 PM
|
#7 |
Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.81 over 180 days |
Wow DaveO met his match with a HF caliper. 
__________________
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." -- Jedi Master Yoda | |
| | |
05-25-2008, 12:11 AM
|
#8 |
Name: Andy City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 50 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.03 over 180 days |
and I read this thread all the way to the end because I have a set of cheap HF calipers and I am .. err.. I mean that's the only reason...  | |
| | |
05-25-2008, 01:54 AM
|
#9 | | Asst. Webmaster
Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.96 over 180 days |
Originally Posted by DaveO For the life of me I can't figure out how to access the battery compartment on these HF calipers - There's a battery in there? I thought it contained a tidy rodent running around to spin the wheel to power the display.
I guess I better stop trying to stuff wheat pellets into the darn thing.
__________________
Bas.
I don't need it. I just want it.
| |
| | |
05-25-2008, 06:18 AM
|
#10 |
Name: Larry City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2008 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 3.97 over 180 days |
In my former line of work (IT), we had a saying. RTFM - Read the @#$%* manual. It was always a last resort for me.
__________________
Measure once, cut as many times as it takes...
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
_________________
| |
| | |
05-25-2008, 06:34 AM
|
#11 |
Name: Dennis City: Ivan's Corner (Monroe) State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.92 over 180 days |
Whoda thunk anything from HF woulda had such a precision fit to it! .gif "Drogar Laugh(DBG)") | |
| | |
05-25-2008, 08:22 AM
|
#12 |
Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.69 over 180 days |
Originally Posted by DaveO Bingo!!! George, that's it. I saw no seam or any indication that that was a separate piece or movable at all.
You are pretty smart....you saved the instructions and was able to find them again. I would like to think that I saved them, but I can't find them
THANKS!!!
Dave If it is any consolation Dave, I saved the directions by slipping them into the box with the calipers and then promptly misplaced the whole shebang for a month.  
__________________ " I get knocked down but I get up again" - Chumbawamba | |
| | |
05-25-2008, 10:03 AM
|
#13 | | Moderator
Name: Peter Davio City: Hope Mills State: NC County: Cumberland Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.96 over 180 days |
geez, my battery cover tries to fall off if I look at it too hard.
__________________
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
However your life is, meet it and live it. Henry David Thoreau
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty, nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
| |
| | |
05-26-2008, 12:06 PM
|
#14 |
Name: Tommy City: Roanoke Rapids State: NC County: Halifax Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 54 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 1.24 over 180 days |
Exactly, I have trouble keeping the battery compartment lid on. It slides open every time I pick it up. Which is a good thing considering how fast that thing eats batteries.
__________________
Tommy
| |
| | |
05-26-2008, 04:19 PM
|
#15 | | Webmaster
Director
Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days |
Any good tips on where to find the batteries??? I think that Bruce might have mentioned some Dollar Store, or similar place
I haven't gone looking for them, yet, they might be very common.
Dave
__________________ Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools.
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
| |
| | | |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
|   » Stats |
Members: 2,315
Threads: 17,273
Posts: 187,636
2nd Top Poster: jeff... (6,592)
| | Welcome to our newest member, kenger22 | |
.gif "Drogar Cry(DBG)")
