DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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funny reallythis week i got bored and decided to fix my GF's "water damaged" MP3.
It got rain water into it. but once it dried, switching it on some of the buttons/functions doesn't work.
She bought a new one, so i thought, fuck it i'll give it a go.
I took it apart (a few bits flew places, 2mm length screws and springs are a bitch to find)
I took the electronic components into the University Metallurgy lab where i'm doing a few things.
I took the components and placed it in a glass dish with some distilled water and a few drops a detergent and set it in a sonic bath for 10 minutes.
i then rinsed and repeated with distilled water for 10 minutes.
i then rinsed and repeated with ethanol for 10 minutes. (ethanol combines with water, resulting in a lower evaporation temperature of around 60*C)
Dried the parts using hot air. poked it with a small paint brush with ethanol to mop any crud
Taken it home and currently reassembling the parts as i type.
The screen still switches on, so far so good.
Oh and i was told that methylated spirits will work instead of ethanol
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schizophrenic_sheep, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 20:42,
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