Dave killed my Metrahit adapter at first try
Dave, have you fiddled with the sound levels recently? Ive had to crank my television up a lot lately.
Could be I am going deaf? Anyone else noticed?
Dave killed my Metrahit adapter at first try
Dave, have you fiddled with the sound levels recently? Ive had to crank my television up a lot lately.
Could be I am going deaf? Anyone else noticed?
Not to be too harsh, but I feel like Dave is going to get the flak here for someone else's mistake again (just like that horrendously poorly packaged silicon wafer a while back). Why the sharp, stress-concentrating corners in the plastic? Why the brittle material? Why the solid block of plastic, rather than gently curving spring-like shapes that offer some flexibility and reduce the requirement for dimensional accuracy? It's not like he was overly rough with it, he just tried plugging it in and it go so stuck that it couldn't reasonably be removed non-destructively.
The electronics and software look wonderful in your device, but I'm sorry to say, Dave did not kill your adapter. It just broke.
Dave, have you fiddled with the sound levels recently? Ive had to crank my television up a lot lately.
Could be I am going deaf? Anyone else noticed?
I found the audio level very low as well - at least compared to the advertisement YouTube provided before it.
Well, the rectangular vertical edges and the brittleness of the material come naturally with acrylic cut cases.
Well, the rectangular vertical edges and the brittleness of the material come naturally with acrylic cut cases.
I'm talking about the fact that you have sharp inner corners, rather than using radii. Inner radii are perfectly amenable to laser cutting, and the failure points on your device seen in the video were clearly at sharp corners. It's perfectly plausible for me to claim that a simple 3mm radius would have prevented this particular breakage.
I am sure Isaac is a lier about beeing the inventor of the solderdoodle thing.
Weller is selling this Soldering Iron for years.
.... prevent the prong from being so incredibly tightly wedged.
The other problem is that the thing simply isn't the same shape as the weird holes in the meter. If you make it less tight fitting it will probably fall out.
I don't see an easy solution if all you have is a laser cutter and some acrylic.
Well, I would have never imagined someone could break it without intention, but probably I was underestimating the Aussie brute.
Well, I would have never imagined someone could break it without intention, but probably I was underestimating the Aussie brute.
Maybe you could make the prongs with all the layers of acrylic instead of just the central one. Put a vertical bolt through each prong to hold it all together.
Maybe you could make the prongs with all the layers of acrylic instead of just the central one. Put a vertical bolt through each prong to hold it all together.Don't wanna be nitpicking but there are two layers with prongs. And it would be pointless to have the (same) prongs in more layers as they wouldn't touch the holes' walls due to their odd shape.
Back then, I thought about using wider prongs in the next layers but this would have looked weird. And well, the PCB would have needed prongs as well and I didn't like that idea.
Anyway, I don't really intend to invest more time into this. I made a few of these cases, they were relatively cheap and they work perfectly fine for me.
There is simply no reason whatsoever for me to invest time and money to make them bullet proof. It's not like I want to sell them or get praised by mechanical engineers.
If someone wants to improve the case, he/she is invited to do so. The DXF file in the bitbucket repository would be a good starting point.
Maybe you could make the prongs with all the layers of acrylic instead of just the central one. Put a vertical bolt through each prong to hold it all together.Don't wanna be nitpicking but there are two layers with prongs. And it would be pointless to have the (same) prongs in more layers as they wouldn't touch the holes' walls due to their odd shape.
There is simply no reason whatsoever for me to invest time and money to make them bullet proof. It's not like I want to sell them or get praised by mechanical engineers.
Not pointless: They'd be stronger if you join them together.
It broke on the first use.