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The motor brushes seem to be a pair of stiff wires
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You can’t cover the entire crimped region, lest the terminal not snap into the housing, but halfway seems to work fine.
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Maybe the right thing to do is start with a street-legal truck light and build some electronics around it.
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Bicycling Magazine, August 2009, page 35.
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“Stop charging when [the surface temperature] is over 70C or it feels very hot”.
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What you do not want: the wrench rips the corners off the head before loosening the thread.
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Then I mixed up a batch of Bondo auto-body repair epoxy, buttered up the end of the heating element, and gooshed it into the socket.
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They haven’t seen fit to correct the holes in the top cover in the last seven or eight years: “Made with pride in the USA”, indeed.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 