besem Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 My GPSr has fallen a few times without consequence, but a few months ago, my GPS fell off the dashboard of my car, and hit that little metal thing you use to adjust your seat. Small little metal point = huge pressure, and the display was never the same again. The unit was still operable, however, and I cached a good month with it without any problems other than a wonky display. Then the display would get garbled, and only a whack would fix it. Later on I had to squeeze the GPS at the sides to get the display to be useable, and eventually, two weeks ago, during a hunt for that FTF, it died. Plugged the unit into my PC confirmed that it's not only the display. No life whatsoever. So I Googled a bit, found this site which shows you how to perform surgery on a Garmin eTrex. I didn't exactly have the right tools, but I figured I'd give it a go anyway. Let's just say that the operation was not a success. So what can I do with a broken GPSr? It's been a useful paperweight up to now, and makes my new GPS looks really great by comparison (GPSrs are WAY cheaper here in Europe). Maybe it could be handy as a frustration throw-thing, or possibly even a thief-decoy. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 There's a cache here in Cape Town that uses a dummy/demo GPS as a container. Or you can use it as a cache trade item - that could get someone excited, at least until they find out the thing does not work. Quote Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 There was a TB doing the rounds that had a very old Garmin GPSr attached. Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 There was a TB doing the rounds that had a very old Garmin GPSr attached. I would second that - it would make a great TB! Quote Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 There was a TB doing the rounds that had a very old Garmin GPSr attached. Tracked it down, was a Magellan, The Brick Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Great idea! Quote Link to comment
besem Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Hahaha, that is brilliant! Good thing is, I'm expecting four new TBs to arrive sometime this week! I will post a link as soon as I tag & release the thing. Quote Link to comment
besem Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 It has been done. Trixie has been released into the wild! Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Brilliant! I hope to meet up with her one day in the Middle East. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Should have sent it to Avnic trading they would probably have replaced the unit for you at a small charge.... *Watches as plenty people run off to find the TB and move it before the owner knows what happened to it* Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Also hope to bump into Trixie - perhaps you can have a mission to meet up with south african cachers? Quote Link to comment
besem Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Also hope to bump into Trixie - perhaps you can have a mission to meet up with south african cachers? That's not a bad idea - I'll add that as a sub-mission. Should have sent it to Avnic trading they would probably have replaced the unit for you at a small charge.... *Watches as plenty people run off to find the TB and move it before the owner knows what happened to it* Doesn't look like the Dutch geocachers pay much attention to this forum... she's still sitting in her rectangular little box buried under... hey wait a minute... I opted for an upgrade to a different model because with Trixie's low-sensitivity received ([whisper] she was useless for caching under trees [/whisper]) she was a brilliant little unit. I'm really sad that she's gone. Quote Link to comment
de familie beer Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Doesn't look like the Dutch geocachers pay much attention to this forum... she's still sitting in her rectangular little box buried under... hey wait a minute... By coincidence mama beer stumbled upon this item... Though the Netherlands is only small, Wassenaar still is a little too far off for de familie beer. If Trixie should find her way in our direction (not too far away from Eindhoven) we would like to introduce her to our GPS-r! We placed her on our watch list... so all we can do now is wait... Quote Link to comment
besem Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Trixie made it to the UK, thanks to Cachorganic (a Dutch cacher who lives close to me and picked up the TB by coincidence). Will be very interested to see how many SAFfers get to meet Trixie. (; Quote Link to comment
antonadc Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hey besem if you still got it get a quote from Avnic or give it to me Ill have a look for you. Send me a PM. Anton Quote Link to comment
besem Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hey besem if you still got it get a quote from Avnic or give it to me Ill have a look for you. Send me a PM. Anton (; Trixie's havin' fun in the UK at the moment, so there's not much chance I'll get my hands on her again soon. Besides, she might have been repairable, but then I decided to open her up... but thanks for the offer! Quote Link to comment
+W@lly Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I'm looking for a memory card for my GPSMap276C if anybody have one thanks Quote Link to comment
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