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Post by corgiluver on Feb 9, 2017 11:19:16 GMT -7
I have a Teddy with a very broken volume/on/off wheel. It's pretty much beyond repair. (At least what I can repair). I know this is a long shot, but anybody have a spare volume wheel I could purchase??? I know my other option is to just buy a "parts" bear, but I've never had the guts to part out a whole Teddy. But if somebody else already did that and has a volume wheel... Lol. I keep checking eBay for spare parts, but in the mean time I thought I'd ask here.
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Post by late2theparty on Feb 10, 2017 14:33:17 GMT -7
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Post by Kevin on Feb 12, 2017 9:52:37 GMT -7
Hi If you are in the UK or Europe I may be able to help if you are in the USA then as late2theparty suggested www.dreeyoreshospital.net/unless you can use a soldering iron,I would not recomend buying parts bear as there are 4 different versions. Regards Kevin www.teddyruxpinhospital.com |
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Post by corgiluver on Mar 6, 2017 17:42:47 GMT -7
So I have an email in to dr Eeyore, still awaiting a response. In the mean time I was looking around the internet for any sort of generic volume wheel that I could possibly use. Any ideas of anything I could maybe make work? I've done soldering and wire splicing before so that's not an issue.
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Post by lachlant1984 on Mar 8, 2017 17:44:42 GMT -7
This is just a thought, but you know that some portable radios have the same type of on/off and volume controls like the one on Teddy Ruxpin, if you can find one that's a similar form factor and shape, it could possibly be made to fit. Though I know a little bit about electronics, I'd say that I'm not confident enough to say whether this will work or not. But if you find or have a cheap portable radio you don't really care about, you could take it apart and use its volume control, that's if it is one that also has an on/off switch built into it.
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Post by late2theparty on Mar 11, 2017 12:38:12 GMT -7
Be patient with your message to Dr. Eeyore. She does a lot of travelling as well as concentrating on her writing in the non-summer months so may not catch up on e-mails that quickly. Her busy season for Teddy Ruxpin stuff is the repair season, which is June to the end of August. She will get back to you.
In the interim, as the problem with the wheels on the switch is almost always the indentation in the plastic, I've repaired a couple using epoxy. This is not easy to do as you would be trying to reform that indentation properly. I don't recommend this as it is difficult to get right. But if you try this, be very sparing with the epoxy mix as that indentation is quite shallow and it using too much is the worst thing you can do. I've only done this with the wheels on a Snoopy and a Mickey. Those have a longer neck (as does the Mother Goose) making it almost impossible to come across replacements as there are a lot less of those toys around than Teddy.
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