My outdoor vise was protected from the rain by a lubricant container cut off at its side. Over time, the plastic material was showing signs of brittleness and had developed multiple fractures which had allowed rain water to reach the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My old hand drill was damaged beyond repair. One of the commutator conductors had broken off from the shaft, and the carbon brushes were fractured when the motor was turning. So I bought a new hand drill and was very […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I was tinkering around with an old air conditioning circuit board which was used to control a BLDC (Brushless Direct Current) motor for the fan when I found that tracing the circuits proved to be a bit more complicated […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My bench vise developed a fracture at the base. As a result, the vise was not able to function as normal. It could not hold any work piece in place, rendering it useless as a vise. However, some of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a small inverter welding machine which was quite useful for welding small parts. It was very light and portable and was able to produce acceptable welding results. Furthermore, for me to be able to transport the machine easily […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I saw a video on youtube about repairing a battery charger for my laptop. All this time, I was hesitant about opening a laptop battery charger because they were simply not meant to be opened – there were no […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, somebody gave me a hair dryer which was not working. I don’t know how it happened, but I found that all the fan blades had been broken off. Without the fan blades, the hair dryer was practically useless. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I got hold of some old pc’s with the intention of checking whether they would work for my cnc machines. (One moving gantry cnc machine is coming out very soon, and it would need a computer to work on). […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a continuation of my previous blog on making a hand router. The real intention for me to make a hand router was so that I could make a light box for tracing illustrations which eventually I planned to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…