Need advice to help extract battery holder

[Ander]

The battery packs (original US Li-Ion solution) in my Catalysts are quite a good fit, they sit very snugly at the bottom of the hilt... Sometimes so snugly that it's hard to remove them to change the batteries and I have to shake and hit with the palm the hilt before they come out. For example, after yesterday training, the GB pack is stuck, and won't come out. It will, eventually, as I have stored the saber in vertical but is there anybody with any idea on how to facilitate this? Note that I don't want the packs loose in the hilt, obviously, as it's way better for stunts if they sit tight.

[ed_ification]

What I have done with my Ultrasaber (a DWG) is to place dish towels onto a countertop, and gently rap the saber against the countertop to facilitate the pack moving down.

I've been debating perhaps attaching a piece of electrical tape to the battery case that would come out over the speaker and into the pommel, so that all I have to do is pull on those to extract the battery case.

[Ander]

I have tried the electrical tape trick but it got unstuck. Will try to rap it gently... I don't want to beat on the hilt too much and break the small welds on the soundboard.

[Ander]

The "dish towel technique" worked like a charm

I love this saber. Only defect I can find it is that the blade tends to move after a while, despite the screw and some tape. Maybe a different emitter would change things, but I like the aesthetics of this one just fine

[Osmethae]

The "dish towel technique" worked like a charm

I love this saber. Only defect I can find it is that the blade tends to move after a while, despite the screw and some tape. Maybe a different emitter would change things, but I like the aesthetics of this one just fine

On my Archon v2 it looks as if someone sanded the edges around the speaker to make it fit properly. I definitely didn't do it, so someone from US must have. I'll take some pics of what I'm talking about when I get home from work.

[Ander]

Yeah, don't bother, one of mine has that sanding too. Thanks!

[shyguy3000]

Yeah, don't bother, one of mine has that sanding too. Thanks!

All of my sabers have sanding as well. And I would suggest carefully sanding down that area a little more yourself if it still gets stuck. That what I did with my newest saber (dark shock) and it helps a lot

[CZ3RO]

Only defect I can find it is that the blade tends to move after a while, despite the screw and some tape. Maybe a different emitter would change things, but I like the aesthetics of this one just fine

My Catalyst doesn't feel like the blade is too secure either - it's a very shallow emitter.   

It's too bad there are no other tapered emitters available in the build-your-own section.

[Ander]

I opened a topic about this at http://www.saberforum.com/index.php?topic=5413.0 in order not to confuse this issue. Please contribute there! I'd love the opinion of a fellow Catalyst user.