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After several years of faithful service, I'm afraid the ardvark in my D'lite has decided to give up on me. When I bought it, I was told to bring it back to them when this happened, I bought them in Vegas, I live in Scotland. Should I attempt some D.I.Y and attempt to replace the lemon or just buy a new D'lite?

DIY DIY DIY

Seeing as your other option is to buy another, may as well give it a try anyway

Maybe somebody here has these and knows what the lemon is, I am guessing but if it is what I think it is, it should be doable.
Sometimes this secrecy gets right in the way huh, lol.

Good luck with it,
BaB

Will give it a go then, the're not too expensive so if it all goes horribly wrong then I can just buy another one. By the way if you never hear from me after this, it went very wrong indeed.

As BUM says (I just love typing B.UM ), you have nothing to lose if you try, because if the worst comes to the worst and they still dont work, you have only the cost of the Lemon to lose.

I havem't had a good look, but I would guess that the Lemons are standard and readily available - and should be easy to swap.

(but I am guessing).

Worse case scenraio, you get yourself a nice new TT

LOL
Always stand in a bucket of water when working with electricity, I think that's right anyway, or was it in the shower?

BaB
please please realise this is a joke, unless you like spikey hair and stammers

BaBaBoom wrote:please please realise this is a joke, unless you like spikey hair and stammers

Are you referring to that guy who got famous from Pop Idol???



MOM... the D'lite is an easily serviceable item, if you've got the right tools. But being fair, the cost of the Aardvark is about £2 to £3, and you'll need some other items to complete the mission too.

At around £10 each, and no more hassle than waiting for the postie to arrive, you get a nice fresh D'lite - and your old ones can be dismantled and used as nice soft Lemons - great for when you need to handle cards too.

I HAVE repaired my D'lites once, but it was nothing more than re-attaching the Aardvark and it's connected Ferret to the inside of the Lemon.

Know what I mean??? This was very easy, but made me realise how much of a gruel it would be to replace the aardvark itself...

please please realise this is a joke, unless you like spikey hair and stammers

hmmmm.....my eyesights not that good so I can't quite read this. Ah... I think I've got it now, please please realise this is not a joke...by the way I like your spikey hair and stammer. Hmmmm....I have neither spikey hair nor a stammer but am flattered all the same BaBaBoom.

No I wasn't thinking of Simon Cowell

lol @ The Mistress

questio to consider is it the lemon thats run out of puff or has the ferret had its chips either way not to hard to fix even if the bystable flipflop goes up the spout just make a note of all orientations on a piece of paper before you detach anything, if you get the ferret round the wrong way you will definately get bitten same with the lemon but more so, the bystable flipflop wont care hes transient anyway.
give it a go you cant do anymore damage than is done already.

I'm sorry magicdiscoman but you've got my brain pickled here . I've had a look at it and it doesn't seem too difficult to do. So, let me get this straight, all I have to do is stand in a bucket of water while wearing flipflops and think about Simon Cowel while holding a ferret who is eating a lemon that he stole from an aardvark. Sounds simple enough.

all I have to do is stand in a bucket of water while wearing flipflops and think about Simon Cowel while holding a ferret who is eating a lemon that he stole from an aardvark. Sounds simple enough.

exactly making sure you are of the correct orientation

or failing that pm me

I'm not anti women in any way (I married one....isn't that proof enough!) but WHY does a woman have to always over complicate things!!!????

Mistress, first of all forget the water, ferret, lemon and aardvark. For a start normal household custard will do for the water and any old mink will act as a more than adequate substitute for a ferret.

Feed the mink the custard, while OBVIOUSLY standing in the bucket, take a LIME (I mean Lemons are SO 80's....) and remove the zest and leave it to one side. Squeeze a third of the lime into a silver gravy boat ....sorry i forgot to mention that but it does really have to be silver...and chop the remaining pieces of lime into 7.5 mm cubes, discarding any remaining lime not conforming to this cubing standard.

Beat 4 egg whites until stiff and add the aardvark BUT, like many of us,you will find that your local pet shop doesn't stock Aardvarks. What I do is simply nip to the bottom of the garden and pick the nearest echidna (well.......all termite eaters are virtually the same anyway).

Once you have baked it all for 45 minutes (on gas mark 5) it should be slightly toasted on the outside yet melt-in-mouthingly delicious on the inside, and if you send THAT to Simon Cowell I guarantee you will get into the last ten on next years poop idol (I meant pop....or did I?)

Women...hah!....like I said, always overcomplicating things

Someone once mentioned the awful habit of this forum in going ever so slightly off the thread. Can't see where they got that impression from.

I bought some 'Gold' and 'Green' D'Lites from Penguin a week or so back and, as a result, can access the after sales help section on their forum - you won't be surprised to hear that similar postings about replacement work etc are on there as well. The general consensus was that the source of power in the US is available from K Mart or equivalent for a couple of dollars or so and it was at least worth a shot - even if only for the fun of it. If it doesn't work, the replacement cost isn't too steep and you at least get a TT out of the deal. There was also great discussion about the 'newer' versions which have a plastic tab inside instead of just metal and I understand than some of these items can arrive at destination illuminated so the life expectancy is somewhat less! The Gold ones are in the softest TT I've ever used and are very comfortable indeed - no problems with ditching as they stay on until you need to lose them and then slide off nicely.

Incidentally, the Gold ones are OK, actually a nice sort of lemon yellow colour (honest!) and are not quite as luminous as the red ones. The Green ones are much dimmer and really need to be used in darkened rooms as opposed to just slightly dark for the red and yellow. Still good fun though!

By the way, also off topic - I've been enlightened as to who the stammering spikey haired Pop Idol dude is - his name is Gareth Gates, not Simon Cowell.

Also, I have good news... the items needed to repair the D'lites can be found at RadioSpares (RSWWW.com) and the whole caboodle costs about £3 per-D'lite.

More via PM, if required.

So with the green ones, you could do a luminous "pick your nose and eat it routine"?

(well kids will think it's funny!)