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Frankenbear Synthamajig

Step 2Disassemble and carefully destroy the flasher.

Disassemble and carefully destroy the flasher.
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The light flasher is going to be the "buttons" down your bear's stomach. What we are going to do in this step is disassemble and rewire the light flasher so that it no longer flashes.

The first thing we're going to do is open up the flasher and remove the circuit board. This should be easy.

Next, we are going to deactivate the flasher.

The flashing feature is deactivated because I simply didn't want it to blink. If you want to keep yours blinking, remove the button and solder a wire to each terminal where the button used to be on the board (and then skip the rest of this step as well as the next).

If you want to keep yours from flashing, go get your drill. Determine where the chip is on the board. It probably will look like a black dot, which is really a protective coating to keep people from tampering with it (see secondary picture below). Locate the dot and then drill through it until it is gone. This hole should also be enough of a precaution to break all unnecessary wiring connections.
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