What did folks use to grab the wires in the Pole?

[wwhopper]

My fingers were not that long - so I hunted around in the kitchen and found the dough beater off of the mixer - it was long curly hooked and skinny enough to fit into the pole. With a couple of twists it caught the black plug and I was able to pull it out. Did not want to use a knife and chop sticks did not seem like they would do the trick.

Loved the tone when the black wires came together - seg 50 toned right away seg 52 toned a little later than its brother.

Looking forward to the spring and gliding about the cherry blossoms her in the Nations Capital!

Will W Hopper,IFDA
Washington, DC, USA

[cstull]

If the pole is collapsed, I just stick two fingers up the pole and shake it down. The wires are coiled and they bounce down into grasp.

Dough hook works too, apparently.

Craig

[pam]

Yes, I definitely found that I needed to run the shaft down to it's lowest position in order to get the cords out. Then, once I've got them connected, I run the shaft back up to pull them up so that I can get the shaft back into the base more easily.
Pam

[BruceWright]

Fingers.

-Bruce Wright

Segway: Vehicle of Dream

[wwhopper]

I had that shaft collapsed best I could - maybe the latest ones are shorter wired. But it did work.

Will W Hopper,IFDA
Washington, DC, USA

[RedKey]

A tip to make reaching the cables easier, and this is double important for machines with the older structured bag attached because they can't collapse the column completely.....

When you have the cables in hand, attach a 12" string to one of them. Next time you need to pull the cables out of the column the string will be hanging out and you just pull it to access the cables.

Some of the machines in the factory are setup this way- very handy!

Red

[JGartmann]

I used 7 inch long locking tweasers to grab on to the plug. The closest plug was 3 inches in and out of reach no matter how much I shook the tube. The column seemed to be fully retracted so I didn't try to retract it any more. I wondered why up to now no one has commented on this? It makes removing and replacing the handle a major headache. Not good if you need to take the handle off to fit the unit in the trunk of your car. Also the instructions tell you to charge it for 12 hours at room temperature. Another real pain for me as I had planned on charging it at an unheated storage facility I use, which was near where I picked the unit up. So I lost the entire day and had to bring it home this evening and take it inside. My garage is not heated either. I am not a very happy camper. And I agree that the charging LED's are in a really stupid place, under the plug. Were the designers asleep at the drawing board? And why does it not have a 12 volt DC input plug for charging from a vehicle? Forcing us to use an inverter is also stupid engineering. I will not buy an additional unit until these screwups are fixed.
John Gartmann

[Peter iNova]

quote:Originally posted by JGartmann

It makes removing and replacing the handle a major headache.

Tie a string...
-iNova

http://www.glidewalk.com

[pdantic]

quote:Originally posted by JGartmann

Also the instructions tell you to charge it for 12 hours at room temperature. Another real pain for me as I had planned on charging it at an unheated storage facility I use, which was near where I picked the unit up. So I lost the entire day and had to bring it home this evening and take it inside. My garage is not heated either.
That's normal for most rechargeable batteries. I have a rechargeable mulching mower (8 years old) that I have to bring into my basement every winter. The cold affects batteries so be sure to follow the temp guidelines religiously. Until the Mr. Fusion kit is available batteries are going to be your sole source of power... [:P]

Steve
The Joy of Segs: http://www.joyofsegs.com

[2totango]

After going nuts for awhile we found a long pair of needle nosed pliers.

Thanks for the string idea.

[mzokc]

A teaspoon works perfectly. (A tablespoon will not fit!)

Mark

[across04]

If using needle nose pliers, make sure to grab the OUTSIDE of the cable and not bend any pins! You could damage the connector!

[laura]

I used a narrow rubber spatula for scraping baking bowls.

laura bennett

[pkradd]

Question. Why don't the people putting the units together provide some kind of "attachment" to the wire harness that is easy to grasp? Or even have it designed better then what it currently seems to be. There should be a simple solution to make things easier for the consumer. Sounds like a poor design.

[wayne]

I just wrapped some duct tape (sticky side out) around a long screwdriver. Stuck it to the wire and pulled it out.



Seg-On
www.kcaps.com/segway.html

[pam]

quote:Originally posted by pkradd

Question. Why don't the people putting the units together provide some kind of "attachment" to the wire harness that is easy to grasp? Or even have it designed better then what it currently seems to be. There should be a simple solution to make things easier for the consumer. Sounds like a poor design.


TBH, on my trip to S. Fl. where I assembled and disassembled my segway numerous times, I never at any point had a problem actually getting the wires by hand when it came time to reconnect the wires and put the control shaft back on. However, I was very careful to be sure that the handle bars were down in their lowest position on the shaft. The design hasn't failed me. And as a consumer, I'm probably the least mechanically inclined on this list.
Pam

[toybuilder]

When I first pulled my control shaft assembly out of the box, the connector was also out of immediate reach. All I had to do was shake the shaft up and down until the connectors wiggled down within reach. You can see me doing that in my unpacking video.

http://www.pasadenasegway.com

Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready.
— Wilbur Wright

[Stutoonz]

I used a 'grabber'. Most Auto supply stores sell them. It's a long thin flexible shaft with a syringe type button on top that you push down and 4 small claws open on bottom. Used primarily for picking up screws and small parts that have fallen into hard to reach spaces.

Then I tied a string to cord!!

SO IT GOES !!-Kurt Vonnegut, author ---IMAGINATION IS BETTER THAN KNOWLEDGE -Albert Einstein