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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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So the next iteration will merge the battery plate with the case and print the whole affair in one shot.
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The trick is to extrude a chunk of the main case shape, then subtract this intricate doodad
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The latch bar consists of a L-shaped brass angle (from the Big Bag o’ Cutoffs) with two snippets from a square brass tube soldered to the ends
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Given the hotel’s location in Hartford’s hot urban core, I’d expect absolutely no security-by-obscurity whatsoever.
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The print failed when the nozzle snagged one of the tines
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Worked fine, up until the steering went mushy on a recent ride
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I wish damage on the curious chandelier spider.