The filter on the pump I was using was too fine so I designed a coarser one to replace it. I designed the new filter in SolidWorks. The final print can be seen below: The new filter installed in the pump can be seen below: The files for this model can be found on Thingiverse here. As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask, Conor.
I dropped an SD Card reader while a card was in it and broke the card slot. The electronics were fine it but the enclosure that held the card had broken. I’ve highlighted in the picture below what broke. The enclosure that holds the card onto the pins cracked and would no longer hold a card. I thought I’d share the process I went through to fix this. In SolidWorks I drew a cuboid a bit bigger than the size…
My parents have solar lights in their driveway, recently the controllers on some of the lights broke and the lights stopped working. This light has a proximity sensor that switches on and off the main ring of LEDs when triggered and normally when it’s dark only the center LED is on. I couldn’t fix the PCB so I decided to design a circuit to replace this PCB. To make the project easier I decided to not use the proximity sensor….
I needed to make a replacement for this bolt handle as the bolt had rung off and would not tighten properly. I made up a bolt and a nut to use as the bolt section. I designed a new handle to hold the bolt. The printed model can be seen below. The assembled model can be seen below. The model files can be seen on Thingiverse here. As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask,…
In the last post I started refurbishing a DELL XPS 15 L502X by improving it’s thermals (here). In this post we will look at: Replacing the Hard Drive with an SSD Replacing and increasing the RAM Doing a clean install of Windows 10 In my opinion the easiest way to find a replacement SSD and RAM is to use the Crucial System Scanner which is run by Crucial who are a reputable maker of SSDs and RAM. When you run…
I refurbished a DELL XPS 15 L502X for my parents. The laptop was running very hot and slow. I decided that in order to refurbish the laptop I would: Clean the fan and heat sink Replace the stock thermal paste Replace the Hard Drive with an SSD Replace and increase the RAM Do a clean install of Windows 10 (This was Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7) This post will cover the first two points and a follow up post…