Sawsheezle vs. The Remote

Ok. Sometimes you just get to that point where you begin to question your sanity: is this thing broken or are the batteries just dying or am I ever going to make money off of my Greek dry-bulk shipping investments? The thing is question is my AV receiver remote and while I may watch my Greek shipping stocks crash and burn this quarter, I was able to conquer The Remote. Here's the problem:

What button do you think is the most commonly used? Answer, the only button I use other than power is the volume button on the far-right. Now obviously the engineers at Onkyo corporation would design such a button to withstand a disproportionate amount of use right? No. Every button is essentially the same: some rubberized shape with electrical contacts on the bottom that, when depressed, make a connection on the circuit board inside the body of the remote. My volume button stopped working so I knew it wasn't making contact with the circuit board inside the body. Solution: get that thing out of there!

 

And you can see the darn circuit board in there. After so much use it got warped and the button couldn't "touch" it anymore. After tearing the rubber around the button I was able to put it back in its slot and it was free to fall into place.

It works great! Of course it can and does fall out from time to time, but I just try to never toss the thing around. You should always respect your equipment dawgs.

In summary, if you use a button on your remote too much and tried to get it to work by pressing even harder on said button, you have probably warped the circuit board under the button. A simple fix is to rip the button out and put it back in. Sawsheezle 1, The Remote 0.