keep the Stylus from falling off your Clie

[Streamhawk]

Hi guys,

I have a T665, but I like to read other forums, and in one of them I found a couple of solutions to my stylus problem and also gave an idea that worked for me, I don't know about the rest of you, but my stylus seems to want to run off and divorce my Clié without me knowing about it, it keeps falling off, so with one of the solutions I fixed my problem. My stylus is going nowhere.

Here's the link to that Forum, Good Luck!

http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12127&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
:D

[madkins007]

As a quick run-down of possible solutions:

1. Wrap tape on stylus to make it thicker.

2. Put a thin coating on the stylus to make it thicker (super glue(??), clear nail polish, liquid bandage, etc. I would assume that a drop of something like clear model paint, etc. would work as well. It may well be that a couple tasteful stripes of moderately thick paint will work, and add a touch of pizzazz, to boot. 

3. Find a tiny O-ring (as from a dart, lighter, etc.) to put between the stylus sections to create a bulge.

4. Open up the device and look at the retaining 'pin'. If broken off, place a pea-sized foam ball under the opening it reveals so some foam bulges through and helps hold the stylus.

5. If the retaining pin is still in place but weakened, put a piece of tape behind to it 'firm it up'.

6. Use a different, thicker stylus (I find that the Innopockets are nice for this), OR keep several spares on hand.

 

"Have not tried, but I wonder if it would work" section:

A. Heat shrink tubing. I wonder if a thin tubing could be shrunken on to form a good grip and help hold a stylus in place?

B. I wonder if you could MAKE a sort of gasket by, maybe, punching a small hole in a wide rubber band, putting the stylus together through the hole, then trimming away the excess?

C. Ideally, of course, we'd figure out some way to beef up the retention system built into the PDA- something like bending a paper clip so a rounded point or curve protrudes into the stylus silo.

[Jayman]

Thank God my stylus and clie are still in love.....