2013/11/10 My remote door opener for my fine 2006 Buick LaCross was acting erratic. Upon inspection, and poking around inside the fob, I came to the conclusion that the little contact points on the "rubber thingy" no longer had enough free electrons to make the connections. I took a piece of white paper and fashioned a piece to match the inside of the fob, and with a Number 2 pencil I made dark circles at the places where the contacts were located. The graphite in the pencil made the contact and it worked for a week or so till I got to and Auto Zone and replaced the "rubber thingy".
2011/08/07 Purchased a doorbell extender, which is activated by a microphone, with a two second conterminous audio send demand. I wanted it to be a press and send so "Sweet Thing" could call me from the other end of the house. To convert it to a push button, I drilled (Using a modified ratchet screw driver bit sharpened on opposite side similar to a drill, I need to pursue this and modify some drills with the screw driver locking tip welded to the drill bit, have a drill in your ratchet screw driver)a hole thru the case directly above the "test" button to the diameter of a plastic screw's shaft, from a rain bird sprinkler, the the head had to be shortened and the shaft cut short and both smoothed. The 'test" button had a spring in it and it raised the modified 'button screw" back up in position to be pushed the next time. Works marvelously.
2011/08/07 Purchased a doorbell extender, which is activated by a microphone, with a two second conterminous audio send demand. I wanted it to be a press and send so "Sweet Thing" could call me from the other end of the house. To convert it to a push button, I drilled (Using a modified ratchet screw driver bit sharpened on opposite side similar to a drill, I need to pursue this and modify some drills with the screw driver locking tip welded to the drill bit, have a drill in your ratchet screw driver)a hole thru the case directly above the "test" button to the diameter of a plastic screw's shaft, from a rain bird sprinkler, the the head had to be shortened and the shaft cut short and both smoothed. The 'test" button had a spring in it and it raised the modified 'button screw" back up in position to be pushed the next time. Works marvelously.
