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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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I’ll probably end up using some bendy wire anyway.
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Those large eyespots trip your protect-the-baby response every time.
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Come to find out that the new gratuitously gold-plated 2.5 mm plugs in my stash have a slightly thicker front plate that doesn’t quite fit into the recess
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Trim it with tinsnips (or a shear if you have one), then introduce it to Mr Belt Sander.
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The HT’s mic input is galvanically isolated from the rest of the circuit board.
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So I punted: two strips of tape hold the enclosure in place on the HT.
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This is brassboard hardware; I must now build three final versions.