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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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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 