When I am cutting materials by hand for my projects, a lot depended on whether I can mark out the designs accurately, particularly the right angles. I have a cheap engineer’s square (L-square) which I used for my projects, which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I managed to pick up a discarded vacuum cleaner quite sometime back. It was a simple vacuum cleaner that had just a flat filter screen between the dust compartment and the motor. Looking at the construction of this vacuum cleaner, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My work table was transported by car from Kuala Lumpur to Butterworth. In order for it to fit into the car, I had to cut off the legs to make it shorter. After it had arrived at its destination, I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One day, I was surprised when my computer did not give any response when I pressed the start button. Only a few days back, I had been using it, and it did not show any problem at all. As always, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…