Thread: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
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2020-05-21 , 08:57
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#19
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Amateurs! It is a sign of a bad master who blames the tools.

I see growing up in a Soviet Bloc country was a huge benefit. You learn to make do with what you have.
Feh!
In the 90s in Alaska I snapped the antenna ripped some PCB traces and broke the battery pack off of an air band walkie talkie, the way I was supposed to call for my ride home.
A folding pliers tool, a nail, and some pine resin from beetle damage to nearby trees. I carefully melted and separated the resin, heated the nail carefully figuring out the time and discoloration of the nail for temp and using the nail melted the existing solder along with some extra lead from melted and cut into strips decapitated .22 bullets. I think I must have had some copper wire in my camping kit to use as an antenna and to connect the broken battery pack.

(My favorite engineers to hire for prototype type jobs are can-do ex-eastern block(ex-USSR/Warsaw Pact/ex-Yugo) seems lazy get the job done when the boss isn't looking with way out of the box thinking ones, great education too)
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