After reading some posts last year about non, or erratically funtioning tachs., I decided to go for the butt in the can trick. Unscrew the cylindrical plastic piece, gently pry out its guts (in one piece of course), and then stick in either a cig. butt, or a styro peanut and put the whole sh'bang back together.
Hope this works
-Larry

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