How To Repair Battery Spring

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Last Modified: Dec 12, 2022 past

Allie is iv months and 1 week old. She plays with toys now. She pulls things towards herself. She chews and feels and explores.

Wanting to go a reprieve from holding her all day long, I decided to notice some of Grace'southward old baby toys. She had a saucer, a walker, a jumperoo, and some assorted noisy toys at this age.

I knew that Allie would dearest them.

I hoped that Allie would love them enough for me to become some work done around the house and play with my firstborn and her dollhouse.

Mayhap even practise.

Or weblog!

I don't ask for much.

My elementary requests in mind, I crawled into our chilly, dark basement crawlspace this morning, hoping non to see anything with six or 8 legs.

Twenty minutes later, I crawled back out with the toys, having successfully avoided all things creepy and awesome. Among the toys I found was Grace'due south Sing-Along Stage.

Assuming that my handy married man had removed the batteries before he stored information technology away, I grabbed some fresh AAs and a screwdriver and sat the baby in the Bumbo seat.

My handy husband had not, as it turns out, removed the batteries.

Three years in the dank, dark basement crawlspace, and the batteries had leaked their acid out into the battery compartment of the Sing-Along Stage.

"Rats!" I grumbled, causing Grace to come over to see what I was doing.

I cleaned out the battery compartment, making sure to get all of the acid and crud.

Unfortunately, as I cleaned, the springs that were supposed to hold the batteries in disintegrated and brutal out.

"Now what am I going to do?" I said out loud.

Yous can play with me! Grace offered.

Non and so helpful.

Anyway, this toy was awesome. It sang and played music and Grace would sit (and later stand) in front of information technology and dance and sing and scout herself in the mirror and I loved every minute.

I would not allow a little battery acid to stand up between Allie and the awesomeness of the Sing Along Stage.

I put the batteries into the compartment even though the springs weren't there to hold them in. I hoped that, if I replaced the dorsum panel, the batteries would not fall out and the toy would work.

Sometimes, I am more hopeful than smart.

I was incorrect.

I contemplated, gnashing my teeth.

Then I had a begin. What if the music failed to play because the circuit wasn't closed? Perchance those springs had a dual purpose!

If that was the case, I just needed something metal to wedge in there.

I was near to dissect some pens for their springs when I thought well-nigh aluminum foil. I grabbed the coil from the kitchen, tore off two piffling pieces, and rolled them into little balls.