I use this for holding solder while I hold the PCB and iron with my hands. I use my teeth to hold this pen.
Archive for the ‘Do It Yourself’ Category:
2022-02-27 Caps Wiki – Repairing Electronics
Caps Wiki – a place for you to share your repair notes. I like the idea. I’m wondering if I have the patience to spend the extra time. https://hackaday.com/2022/02/24/caps-wiki-place-for-you-to-share-your-repair-notes/
2022-01-22 LED Xmas Light String Repair
A string of LED xmas lights had been fritzing on and off, then it finally failed. I had to pull out 4 lights before I found two that were dead. I had to file off the ridge around the base to get them to fit properly into the base. So it’s back working again. It
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2021-11-27 Electrostatic Machines Website
This website has a huge amount of electrostatic machine projects. Wimshurst, electrophorus, Van De Graaf, and much more. http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/electrostatic.html
2021-11-07 Wood Gasifier Runs Generator
This 17 minute video shows a homemade wood gasifier that puts out enough gas to run a small generator. This is his second version with some improvements. The gasifier can use wood chips, sawdust, leaves, paper, etc., but he is using wood pellets which are already dry. The gasifier produces syngas when wood is pyrolyzed
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2021-10-11 Hydrogen House Project Tour Video
This guy runs everything off hydrogen. He makes his own, stores his own and powers everything from green hydrogen. He has six patents dealing with hydrogen. He made his own system. https://youtu.be/NMH1pBAYgYs GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MINI demonstrator. This is a similar setup. The solar array powers the electrolyzer. The green hydrogen is stored in metal hydride
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2021-02-23 Plastic Waste To Engine Fuel
This guy lives on an island in Nicaragua and gathers plastic waste on the beach. He puts the plastic into a metal tank that is sealed, and builds a fire under it. The plastic pyrolyzes and the fumes are piped through a few condensers where the liquids are drawn off. Some liquids are like diesel
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2021-02-13 Speaker Made From A Steel Sheet And Audio Output Transformer
I made one of these back in 1970 or so. It was inside of a coffee can using the lid for the speaker. This class A power LED driver works good for making a speaker from an audio output transformer and any sheet of steel, even a coffee can with a steel cover. Strip the
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2020-11-02 Signal Tracer Or Audio Amp From An Old AM Radio
Its not hard to make a signal tracer from an old AM radio. You need 60 mm of red and black flexible twisted pair, a 0.22 uF, 100V capacitor, a small black alligator clip, a 50 mm length of shrink tubing that will fit over the following probe, and a thin 100 mm long piece
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2020-10-11 Right To Repair
This morning on CBS Sunday Morning they had an article about a farmer who couldn’t repair his $800,000 John Deere tractor and lost several days of work. There is a growing movement in the US to make laws that require manufacturers to allow their customers to repair the equipment they own. This is a backlash
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