Or, by making it effectively non-repairable, they force you to go & buy a
new one rather than repaitr the old.
RP



>I can never figure out how they get assembled either. Why is there never
>some form of retention for the spring to hold everything while it is
>assembled, without needing to be an octopus with feeler gauge fingers to
>hold everything as the final cover goes on?

Because they have a special jig to assemble it and somewhere they
saved $0.005 on each one doing it.  And they're proud of this.

Barry

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