so i decided to do like this - i bought a rubber transcend usb stick, took it out of rubber housing, put in the syncrosoft thing and the next time i will buy elicencer will be after a quality improvement!
Ahh good idea. Mention of rubber gave me yet another idea.
HEAT SHRINK TUBING !
If you find one large enough to slide over the dongle and carefully apply a heat gun to make it snug !
note: upload lic. first just in case - as always
ive covered mine in this : X Treme Tape - Extreme Tape - Silicone Tape - High Temp Tape - Rubber Tape - Compression tape
welds its self together and if you rap enough around it you could bounce it from one daw to another ! 
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Considering the mission critical role of the dongle (housing hundreds if not thousands of dollars of licenses) and being the keystone in the operation of a DAW studio, it would be nice if the hardware was finally of a corresponding level of ruggedness and durability. Something like an Iron Key.
I’ve cracked two over the years…I even wrote to Syncrosoft to request reconsideration of their their design spec. And, while I received a nice reply back, nothing has happened in those years…unless them being made smaller counts as a durability enhancement.
If I crack mine again, I’m going to consider some of the ideas posted here…the re-housing in a ruggedized jump drive or embedding in epoxy are interesting ideas.
QuBe.
split said
They should make a “rubberised” one, you know… like those drum kits >
You’re not going to let Brains, brains, Immortal Hampster, fried brains etc. etc. forget about that are you?
The requested user does not exist!!!
Oh dear, what happened?
Learned some interesting info today from the director of IT where I work.
Many USB thumb-drives (same technology as USB dongles) have a battery inside to hold the memory. When the battery goes, so does all the data on the stick. He advised the lifespan of such devices is from 3 to 8 years.
Food for thought.
Flash memory is used instead of batteries since long time ago. There is no battery inside the eLicenser.
Good to know. Thanks for clarifying that. 
Server OS version 2003 B.C.?
Scoff if you want to … but I’m a happy camper ever since the IT department sharpened my chisels. Now … if only they could make those stone-slates a bit lighter. 
I think it’d be easier to make those gerbil arms a bit stronger. 
this is how the licencer will look from now on, the plastic thing fells apart - 5 months old only. so somebody suggested raychem termoisolator - good choice also! but still; for dongles we put 1000eur licences on, i find it totally unacceptable that i have to do some monkey repairing on myself. sorry steins, bad job here.