Black and Decker 3-Cup Rice Cooker Button Mechanism Repair

Lift the lid and bowl from the top of the device.

Turn the device upside-down, so that the four legs of the device point upwards.

Each of the four legs has a rubber cushion on its bottom. For each cushion, insert a plastic opening tool between the plastic leg and rubber cushion, and pry off the rubber cushion.

Using a spanner screwdriver, remove the one 10mm long 7mm diameter spanner screw from the side of the brass panel.

Using a Phillips screwdriver, remove the 10mm long 7mm diameter Phillips-head screws from the inside of all four legs.

The smaller leg at the bottom is now loose and not attached to the device. Set it aside.

Lift the brass plate off the device and set it aside.

Unscrew the screw at the junction near the opposite side of the device from the front panel.

Label each of the two wires at this junction with a single color of tape.

Unscrew the screw at the junction just clockwise from the button panel.

Label the three wires of this junction with tape of a second color.

Unscrew the screw from the wire junction just behind the front panel.

Label the three wires at this junction with a third color of tape.

On the inside of the device, there is a silver-colored beam leading to the center with a U-shaped brass beam poking through it.

The U-shaped brass beam should be bent outwards so that it cannot fit through the hole in the silver-colored beam.

If the brass beam is not poking through the silver-colored beam, you will need to position it so that it is.

Position the brass beam below the hole in the silver-colored beam and push the silver-colored beam into it, so that the brass beam pokes through.

If the brass beam can't fit through the hole in the silver-colored beam, use pliers to bend the brass beam outwards so that it does not fit through the hole in the silver-colored beam.