*Replacing A Boot on a Minitor III Pager*

By Jaden

12 April 2004

Any of you ever have a knob fall off your Minitor III pager? I have. I was lucky enough not to lose it. I also work on electronics for a living and the other day I had a Min III come in for repair. The rubber boot on the volume knob had fallen off. The owner tried to glue it and that didn’t hold.

The Minitor III was one of Motorola’s better ideas….NOT! We can’t even work on them if internal service is required. Motorola says they don’t make a schematic for it and that we need to send them to Motorola’s High Tech for repair. There ain’t nothing high tech about the pagers…just need a schematic. Oh well.

Minitor III

Ok, enuff ranting about the thing. On to the topic at hand.

So you’ve got your pager & the rubber boot.

Rubber boot

On the top of the boot you’ll notice a dot. This is your indicator.

Turn the pager off and put the boot on. The dot should line up with the white dot next to the volume control. You’ll notice on the volume knob that it has a notch on either side. The boot will only fit 2 ways, so you’ve got a 50/50 chance. That’s why I say turn it off and line the dots up. This way you don’t get the boot on backwards. It’s not a serious issue, you just won’t have any idea of what your volume level is set at, that’s all.

Now, let’s put it back on.

w/o the boot- NOTE that plastic ring

Put the boot on the volume control shaft like I described above. It’ll sit a little bit higher than the other one.

Then you’ll need a small flat head screwdriver. Use your finger and push down on the boot and use the screwdriver to push the rubber inward. You’ll notice that the boot will start to seat down into the plastic ring. Hold pressure on the boot and work the screwdriver 360 degrees around.

Just like this

Bam, your boot is back on. I know what you’re thinking right now…. "Is that all that holds it on?" Yup, it sure is. Like I said….one of Motorola’s better ideas. Bump it up against something and it pops the dang thing off.

Once you’ve poked it w/ the screwdriver and pushed it on it’ll be level with the other one.

And that’s all there is to it. 1 minute fix.

Jaden