Yet another broken Freedom Pass - help!
Obviously it's my fault as I keep my cards in my back pocket, but there's really nowhere else to put them. The latest pass has just died after less than a year of this mistreatment, whereas my credit cards don't complain.
What I think I need is a hard case of some sort to keep the card in to protect it from flexing. Preferably, whilst still allowing it to function without removing it from the case. Any suggestions, please? DIY or ready-made?
Just use a normal wallet with lots of pockets. You can keep bank notes in it as well if you still use them.
If you leave it in a case/wallet the scanner might take money from your debit/credit cards instead.
We've had complete replacements made now twice. The RFID antenna fractures too easily.
While half the world is trying to disable the bloody things for tin foil hat concerns, the other half is only trying to get on a bus ...
Do you carry a mobile phone you can stick it to the back of?
To solve a similar problem I cut a card shaped piece out of the mild steel base of an old VCR which I'd saved expressly for such eventualities.
From memory it wasn't too difficult using a hacksaw and rounding off the corners with a file. This was then inserted into one of the pockets where it remains.
michael adams
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>Well don't sit on them is the answer,you say credit cards do not complain oh yes they do, I broke a visa card the same way. I thing to some extent it depends where the embedded electronics and its aerial is in the card and where it is in relation to sitting down! Brian
buy shirts with a breast pocket
tim
I will give this a try. I'm surprised you used a hacksaw, when an angle grinder would do the job almost as well. :)
I wonder what I have lying around that's suitable....
In message <q9nb5h$63g$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 16:32:00 on Tue, 23 Apr
2019, GB snipped-for-privacy@microsoft.com remarked:You need a card-holding frame that's intended for use at the end of lanyard (and originally with door entry or ID-cards).
I've got one that's also double-sided, so you can store two cards - but then have almost guaranteed card-clash <sigh>.
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