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| RoGeorge:
Toothpick instead of a desoldering pump (TH only), pencil eraser instead of a contact cleaning can, bath silicon caps instead of led diffusers, double row 0.1 inch pins instead of a CR2032 battery holder, keep the car key to my had to increase the range, touch the door handle with the key first in order to avoid the electrostatic shock, hand drill and sandpaper instead of pencil sharpener, iPhone headset and boombox instead of line in or other dedicated amplifier, LXI controlled power source and oscilloscope as temperature regulator for a soldering iron, magnet as a SMD stickvise or picker, a four quadrant digitally controlled analog multiplier made out of 2 ops and an I2C pot, use a spoon as a jar lid opener, stick wet rubber gloves (Van der Waals force) to the sink's mirror (or to the wall tiles) in order to dry them, etc., etc. ^-^ A few of them: https://hackaday.io/project/7574-the-devil-is-in-the-details https://hackaday.io/project/6356-delta-sigma-versus-pwm https://hackaday.io/project/6289-smd-stickvise https://hackaday.io/project/6577-dune-pain-box-a-hackers-replica I'll say my worst I can remember right now is: https://hackaday.io/project/14969-zero-parts-thermostated-soldering-station and the best: https://hackaday.io/project/7542-rogeorge-cell |
| Rerouter:
I make spring hooks by snapping metal tweezers apart at the spot weld and bending the ends, (little hook to get tiny springs over there resting notches.) The amount of things I have made out of coat hanger wire.. to the point I have had multiple people ask me to recreate some (Specialized radio removal tools, even keys) Flat head screwdrivers, some filed a tiny bit to perfectly fit common security screws (the weird ones that don't come in the kits) Using Razor Blade knives to deburr aluminium hole edges Using straight hacksaw blades in hand to cut holes in metal and plastic starting with a blind hole (jigsaw has been broken for a while, and its remarkable hard to cut yourself) Using a razor knife as a scribe on metal (yeah my blades go blunt quickly) Spinning a drill bit on a drill press, then encouraging sandpaper to wrap around it to lightly clean the inside of a metal shaft Putting a cylindrical metal object in the chuck of a drill press to sandpaper polish the outside.... |
| Fred27:
--- Quote from: paulca on October 12, 2018, 05:15:15 pm ---So... I just used my hot air rework gun to help defrost my freezer. --- End quote --- I've used mine to make crème brulée. You have to turn the air down a bit or it blows sugar all over the place. |
| AndyC_772:
--- Quote from: Macbeth on October 12, 2018, 07:13:08 pm --- --- Quote from: paulca on October 12, 2018, 06:45:16 pm ---Actually the best thing I have defrosted this freezer with was the mobile air con unit. Physics baby! I parked it in front of the freezer with the exhaust pointed into the freezer. Defrosted it, removing all ice, in about an hour. Added bonus of dehumidifying the room and warming it up generally. --- End quote --- This is a bloody good idea! :-+ I've used a paint stripper in the past but it is still a lot of effort, sat in a deck chair blasting away for an hour and trying not to melt the plastics. My freezer really needs a defrost. I also need to move my portable AC from the bedroom into storage. I guess I am one of a handful of people like yourself in the UK that actually own one, and it was a lifesaver during this summers heatwave! But yeah, lugging it up and down stairs is a pain. --- End quote --- I've just done this... what a brilliant idea, thank you! :-+ One frosted-up freezer vs a bucket, sponge and a 14000 BTU portable a/c unit was a remarkably one-sided battle. I had to stop half way because the ice was melting faster than I could get the water out! (No drain attachment on this particular unit, sadly). Previously I've used a heat gun, but I've never been keen on the idea of holding something mains powered quite so close to that much dripping water. Not a problem with a flexible plastic hose, though :phew: |
| xani:
AWG to test a neopixel array A bit of Perl code to generate function generator's wave files |
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