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…
Recently I replaced an air-conditioning unit at my house because it was too highly microprocessor controlled with inverter for energy savings that the service technician would have to charge me a lot for replacement of the control unit. After thinking […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found some tempered frosted glass panes and they sparked me to make a light box out of a piece of it. Long time ago, when I was drawing cartoons, I have made a simple light box for tracing. At […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had two c-clamps which I made many, many years ago when I had access to some workshop tools like welding machine, and bench grinder and could find many off-cut discarded steel materials. My intention at that time was to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…