My player held together by masking tape!

booboo773 · #1 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2007, 6:24 pm

After reading a post about the lousy soldering inside a player, I decided to check mine out (bought from keistore). Imagine my suprise when I didn't find soldering, but this...

That's right masking tape! The damned thing is held together by masking tape! :evil:

admin · #2 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2007, 6:42 pm

Oh WOW! There was no way for you to know that unless you pulled it apart.

I can't believe that has happened!
That tells me it's a refurbished player to be honest. Maybe it had some battery problems and it has been replaced?

How long have you had your player booboo773?

booboo773 · #3 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2007, 6:47 pm

I got it back in February from keistore on eBay who is no longer a registered user (big surprise huh?). The funny thing is so far it has had no problems other than the error formats before I formatted and found out is was hacked.

lattesurf · #4 (**permalink**) 30th Apr 2007, 4:06 am

booboo773 , it's common for the shiny metal-back players to have masking tape.
It's cheap insulation, just in case the circuit board shorts itself out on the metal-back casing.

My player has the masking tape too, but stuck to the inside of the back casing rather than on the board. Either way it does the insulating job.

Unless it's not for insulation reasons... hmmmm...

StreetRacer061 · #5 (**permalink**) 1st May 2007, 5:01 pm

Mine is the same way, well its on on the back of the case..
I don't think your player is actually held together by masking tape.
Could be.. who knows.

tadad1 · #6 (**permalink**) 2nd May 2007, 2:46 am

I agree with admin, I would say it is a return that has had a bodgy repair job and resold. "keistore" is now trading under the name "keisquare" and still ripping people off.

admin · #7 (**permalink**) 2nd May 2007, 3:51 am

Maybe the masking tape is there to 'ground' the player from static? A possiblity.....

booboo773 · #8 (**permalink**) 2nd May 2007, 10:12 am

From what I could see around and thru the tape, I didn't notice any soldering. Doesn't mean it's not under there, but I'm not going to pull the tape off to find out. No telling what might come up with it. :shock:

booboo773 · #9 (**permalink**) 2nd May 2007, 10:20 am

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Originally Posted by tadad1";p=&quot

I agree with admin, I would say it is a return that has had a bodgy repair job and resold. "keistore" is now trading under the name "keisquare" and still ripping people off.

Whoops, I did get it from keisquare. Guess I had read their user ids so many times, I got 'em mixed up. Keisquare is no longer a registered user. Too much negative feedback, unfortunately, after I'd already got the player and before I figured out it was hacked. They made their feedback private real fast so no one could see why all the bad all of a sudden.

Wonder what name they're using now?

sunnydalerocks · #10 (**permalink**) 20th Jul 2007, 11:34 pm

Whoa! Maybe there IS a good reason like those other guys said for that piece of tape to be there...

Jeez, i dont think i wanna open My Chipod now...