Ghetto Mods

[Grog6]

Sorry, I was unclear.
I meant like this:

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I have a few of these; and their big brother, which is 0-50V at 0-50A.
I use it for electroplating, mostly.

Power supplies like this have current limiting, and other features that make experimenting easier.

For using computer power supplies, I saw this yesterday:

ATXPower Breakout Board

Breakout board for ATX type Power Supplies. 2x12 (24) pin socket mates to power supply motherboard connector. Binding Posts for +5V, +3.3V, +12V & -12V. (and Ground) Each Breakout is Fused with a Fast Blow 5A/250V fuse. LED Power ON indicator' Switch to Enable Power Supply. Switch: Yes

www.mpja.com

I've bought a ton of stuff from these guys over the years.

 

[E-Bear]

Got this one with burned fan so I thrown in a cooler from a dead 8800GT.

 

[Black14]

 

[HUSKIE]

I need to learn how to read with a different language.

 

[mstenholm]

Or how to overheat your GPU

 

[micropage7]

I bought the wrong optical to HDD caddy, supposed to bought 9mm but I bought the 12.7mm so I sand it down to size manually using 100 grid sandpaper. Its just 3mm after all.

Spoiler

The optical drive is for guide so I won't sand too much
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After a few minutes it matches the thin drive

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Made a couple of screw holes so it fits with the holes on thin drive. I just use hot solder tips

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Finished

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Ghetto but clean result

I have tons of plastic wrap and i need a wrist rest, so why don't reuse them and reduce some waste. It's good for the earth

 

[cucker tarlson]

I swear my middle school ICT teacher wore one of those

 

[dorsetknob]

Every Getto modder has a hot Glue Gun Right ?

Found in a Charity/goodwill shop £2

Just what the doc ordered for Repairing coloured Plastic

 

[E-Bear]

My car heater system got partially stuck close/open so the dash top air duct is not blowing enough hot air to warm up the inside windshield. I made that to lay down on the duct trap itself and pump hot air faster. 5.5v-14v 5.4w 2400rpm

 

[micropage7]

Fixing the bracket audigy soundcard using hacksaw

Sorry if it's too neat

 

[HUSKIE]

Got the 10'' led screen monitor working inside the h500p mesh case. Screen powered by sata 12v.
Hdmi cable hide under psu shroud. The screen has built in sounds too. Happy days! Lol

 

[micropage7]

Stole from internet

 

[silentbogo]

So, I had a bit of a technical challenge today. Got my OrangePi Win Plus from the dust bin, cause I needed something tiny for my other work.
Then I had an epiphany - I had no chassis, and simply going commando and slapping a PCB on top of the router is no longer an option, with girls around
Made a quick ghetto-enclosure by slicing in half a broken power bank and making a few holes for PWR/RST buttons and power jack. Also made a power cable, so I can use it w/ nearby mult-port USB charger (had to do some cutting and hot snot as well).
I'm planning to make a side panel for USB/RJ45, but later

 

[silentbogo]

Alright... got some freebies from one of my regular clients, which includes a functional, but heavily abused Samsung SCX-4251F All-in-One.
Both latches are broken, so the front hatch won't stay closed. They used to jam a piece of folded paper to keep it in place, or fix it w/ sticky tape, and kept using it like that for many years.
I thought shims and sticky tape aren't cool, so I've performed a ritual shaman dance, prayed to IT gods, and they gifted me with magic and ... magnets!

 

[lexluthermiester]

magnets!

That's very creative and solid. Nice!

 

[Midiamp]

Here's a ghetto mod I made. Just changed back to SFF using Silverstone RVZ03. The thing is, my Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT has a few centimeters of exposed heatsink on the back of the card and it blows hot air directly to one of the drive bay of the case... Which so happened, housed my samsung SSD. To protect the SSD from direct hot air, I devise this thin cardboard box and cover it with aluminum foil.

Previously I just covered the SSD with two layer of foils, which basically cooked the SSD.

 

[E-Bear]

Here's a ghetto mod I made. Just changed back to SFF using Silverstone RVZ03. The thing is, my Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT has a few centimeters of exposed heatsink on the back of the card and it blows hot air directly to one of the drive bay of the case... Which so happened, housed my samsung SSD. To protect the SSD from direct hot air, I devise this thin cardboard box and cover it with aluminum foil.

Previously I just covered the SSD with two layer of foils, which basically cooked the SSD.

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Duuuhh not that tin foil guy again !

 

[Valantar]

Needed to protect a riser-mounted GPU from shorting out against the rest of the PC while testing things outside the case. Enter the kapton+cardboard backplate.

 

[Midiamp]

Duuuhh not that tin foil guy again !

In hindsight, the foil does nothing as the ambient temp inside the case increases, but nobody can read the content of my drive!

 

[Andrew LB]

A dremel tool is a truly universal tool; if you can't make it fit with the dremel, you just haven't tried hard enough.

I've machined gears from nylon with a dremel, to make an old VCR work again.

I also cut up some Skyy vodka bottles to make some nice big glasses.

Best way to do that is take a string thats about as thick as 550 paracord, soak it in iso or denatured alcohol (you can even use bbq lighter fluid), tie it around the bottle where you want it to be cut, then light it on fire. Carefully turn the bottle so the flames stay in line with the string, holding it sideways. then carefully place the bottle in a sink full of cold water. Bottle will break right on that line where the string was.

Also, by doing it that way you don't get silicosis and die from cutting glass with a dremel. And no, a dusk mask isn't enough. You'd need to be wearing a proper respirator with P100 cartridges.

 

[Valantar]

Best way to do that is take a string thats about as thick as 550 paracord, soak it in iso or denatured alcohol (you can even use bbq lighter fluid), tie it around the bottle where you want it to be cut, then light it on fire. Carefully turn the bottle so the flames stay in line with the string, holding it sideways. then carefully place the bottle in a sink full of cold water. Bottle will break right on that line where the string was.

Also, by doing it that way you don't get silicosis and die from cutting glass with a dremel. And no, a dusk mask isn't enough. You'd need to be wearing a proper respirator with P100 cartridges.

Or just use a glass cutter and a jig to hold the bottle, with hot/cold water baths to break it off. Either way, cutting glass with a rotary tool is indeed a bad idea.

 

[Grog6]

...And no, a dusk mask isn't enough. You'd need to be wearing a proper respirator with P100 cartridges.

You mean like this:

Respirator and safety glasses are a must; and I use bronze diamond embedded wheels made for cutting glass.
I don't just cut bottles; I make a lot of stuff out of glass.

 

[silentbogo]

Ok, quarantine is getting to me, so I've decided to go through my pile of old PCs and PC parts.
Found this old 8500GT, which is passively cooled to a comfy 100+°C, nothing that a ghetto-fan from an even older PSU can't fix:

I've messed up my pin headers a bit, cause I left a crimping tool at my house, so It needed a little of hot snot to keep pins in place

 

[delshay]

You mean like this:

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Respirator and safety glasses are a must; and I use bronze diamond embedded wheels made for cutting glass.
I don't just cut bottles; I make a lot of stuff out of glass.

Is that you?

 

[Vayra86]

Ghetto but clean result

I have tons of plastic wrap and i need a wrist rest, so why don't reuse them and reduce some waste. It's good for the earth

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'handle with care'

Well played!

In hindsight, the foil does nothing as the ambient temp inside the case increases, but nobody can read the content of my drive!

Nobody? That isn't very useful...