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Replacing the Housing on Your Flash Drive?
TheFarmerInTheDell asks: "I managed to wash my USB flash drive this past weekend (note to self: check your pockets better before doing laundry) and to my surprise, it still works. The problem is that the clothes dryer managed to beat up the plastic housing, and it no longer holds the innards in place as it should. Trying to plug the drive into a USB port is a difficult proposition since the whole mechanism slides into the plastic housing, instead of sliding into the USB port. Rather than using a super glue or an epoxy solution to hold the electronics in place, I was thinking that a custom body would be a cool way to go. I can cast it in resin and have whatever shape I want for the drive, but I am not sure that it will be a good thing to do. Has anyone done anything like this, and if so were there any problems? Are there any issues about not having an air space to help dissipate the heat that the chip generates? Aside from the obvious concerns about allowing the drive to fit into the USB port of a computer, is there any reason that the drive cannot be housed in any shape that I want?"
Apparently not.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
In Soviet Russia, Flash Drive housing replaces YOU.
Two words my friend:
1. Duct
2. Tape
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Mod the parent redundant, as everyone knows duct tape will fix almost anything.
Someone save me from this sanity.
You could keep all your pr0n on it!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
points for duct tape solution. Negative points for suggesting someone not waste a lot of time on tech mod on /.
correct answer is skip work for a few days, spend a ton of time working on some really cool device mod that will make most people say "that guy has waaaay too much free time," post pictures and a step by step of how you did it, let us slash the hell out of your server for a few hours
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You haven't watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" lately, have you?
While working on my own case mod, I discovered I was allergic to epoxy. BE SURE TO WASH YOUR HANDS ******BEFORE******!!!!!! repeat ******BEFORE******!!!!! using the rest room. my little buddy was the color of an apple and twice as large around. The scariest part was that it didn't hurt at all, even grossly deformed.
So Remember, wash BEFORE, and after, using the restroom.
You forgot to insert the obligatory missing step...
3. Spread the article over the course of six pages requiring people to click Next in order to read the next paragraph.
4. Attach Google ads to your article (all six pages).
5. Profit!
A 'friend of a friend' once assembled an entire Heathkit Color Television in the late 1960's using 'liquid solder' instead of regular metal solder. The 'solder' connections all looked shiny and bright and perfect to the naked eye, nobody could figure out why the TV set was completely non-functional until the fool explained what he had done.
Just as a quick aside, when playing with liquid latex, it's best to shave any body hair on the place you plan to apply said latex. Otherwise, I guarantee you won't have any body hair left when you decide to remove the latex :P