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Entombing that mess with a squirt of hot melt glue
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It’s a hefty chunk of aluminum, as befits a device intended to intercept a CO₂ laser beam
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Re-seating all the ICs on both boards produced plenty of crunching noises
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Which fit neatly into place on the first try
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Face down to merge the two colors into a single flat surface with a nubbly texture
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A ball joint … eliminates a whole bunch of computations figuring the cylinder lengths
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All the stress from the grips passes through a thin ring of plastic
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10-32 setscrews are visually indistinguishable from M5 setscrews
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 