It's Not Pretty But It Does The Job

And here's another one that didn't work out. I had this nifty little USB key, which got broken when I bumped into my laptop while walking past. I figured it might just be a broken trace, so opened it up and frankensteined the circuit board onto a connector I'd harvested from another faulty device.



The idea was sound (I thought), but I couldn't get it to work. The data and power lines were the right way round, there was continuity all the way to the board, no short circuits, but it wouldn't fire up. Dunno if that means I screwed up somewhere, or if the board got damaged too.

This one didn't work out quite so well. I rescued a table saw from a skip outside someone's house (don't worry, I asked). When I got it home, it turned out to be broken. I stripped it down to the motor, where I discovered that the gear attached to the shaft had sheared right off. No way to replace it, as far as I could tell, so I gave it to someone else (having explained the fault to him). I think he was going to salvage a few parts and scrap the rest.