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CakeWrecks. Prepare to be addicted. I've been to this site before, but not often enough, apparently.
Jun. 21st, 2010
People who write instructions for how to do things when they have no clue should be dipped in bees. The instructions here are totally useless, and incorrect.
What is needed are instructions on how to open the battery cover. Which, by the way, is *not* found in the referenced manual. This shaver looks like a monolithic block, and it's plain Braun never intended users to be able to replace the battery. However, it can be done if you are good with a soldering iron.
1) Carefully remove the small cap covering the charging socket with a small screwdriver. There are four catches, one at each corner, which can be gently pushed in.
2) Remove the two decorative side-plates. These uncover the main body screws.
3) Unscrew the four body screws with a small star-drive.
4) At this point you can remove the battery assembly, which consists of two batteries soldered to a small circuit board. You can also remove the main shaver assembly, and might as well gently clean everything while you're at it, using the head-cleaning brush that came with your shaver. It's probably very dusty.
5) You will need to carefully de-solder the batteries from the thin contacts, replace them (if you can figure out exactly what kind of batteries are needed) and re-solder them in.
6) Replace the battery assembly and re-assemble the shaver.
Thanks for nothing, eHow. The same goes for Yahoo Answers, most of which are written by morons. I weep for our world...
What is needed are instructions on how to open the battery cover. Which, by the way, is *not* found in the referenced manual. This shaver looks like a monolithic block, and it's plain Braun never intended users to be able to replace the battery. However, it can be done if you are good with a soldering iron.
1) Carefully remove the small cap covering the charging socket with a small screwdriver. There are four catches, one at each corner, which can be gently pushed in.
2) Remove the two decorative side-plates. These uncover the main body screws.
3) Unscrew the four body screws with a small star-drive.
4) At this point you can remove the battery assembly, which consists of two batteries soldered to a small circuit board. You can also remove the main shaver assembly, and might as well gently clean everything while you're at it, using the head-cleaning brush that came with your shaver. It's probably very dusty.
5) You will need to carefully de-solder the batteries from the thin contacts, replace them (if you can figure out exactly what kind of batteries are needed) and re-solder them in.
6) Replace the battery assembly and re-assemble the shaver.
Thanks for nothing, eHow. The same goes for Yahoo Answers, most of which are written by morons. I weep for our world...
Another reason to hate Vista
Jun. 21st, 2010 02:52 pmThere are not sufficient obscenities in the English language (or French, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Lingala or Catalan) to express my contempt for Windows Vista or the AMD Turion Chipset.
I just tried re-installing Alcohol 120% (which runs fine on my XP box, thank you) because I have an install file for another program stored as an .mdf image.
And I get a BSOD. Which won't go away. Until I run a system restore.
OK, so Alcohol is not compatible with Vista. Sheesh. I can't check the compatibility of every program I've ever used - worst case scenario, it should refuse to run, not go out into the weeds and clobber my system during the install process.
Hqiz Microsoft yarg snarl snap hqiz. Thank you.
I just tried re-installing Alcohol 120% (which runs fine on my XP box, thank you) because I have an install file for another program stored as an .mdf image.
And I get a BSOD. Which won't go away. Until I run a system restore.
OK, so Alcohol is not compatible with Vista. Sheesh. I can't check the compatibility of every program I've ever used - worst case scenario, it should refuse to run, not go out into the weeds and clobber my system during the install process.
Hqiz Microsoft yarg snarl snap hqiz. Thank you.
