DRJ1014
Supreme [H]ardness
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was trying to put a clear cover on my power supply and now i have sparks coming out of it... oopps
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LMAO... i do that too cept on purpose with hot glue gunscomputerpro3 said:1. Touched soldering iron. Touched it again. Ouch. What the hell, lets touch it again. (I hold it like a pencil, I always slip onto the metal shaft part)
lol... if i were you, i would have first placed the mobo on the acrylic and stuck a pencil/pen/nail thru the holes to make/scratch a mark of where it is from the center point... then take the mobo off and then tap ittotorovianclub said:I was mounting a motherboard onto a sheet of acrylic, and I had the brilliant idea of placing the pcb right on the acrylic, with no markings, and then screwing the self-tapping wood screws through the mounting holes and into the acrylic immediately below. That way, I would eliminate the chance of mis-marking the holes. Now, in order to get the scrwes into the acrylic without cracking it, I would have to heat them up, so that they would melt nice little screw grooves into the plastic. Normally a great technique when any vaguely electronic bits are placed far, far away. Well, about half way through this accident waiting to happen, I dropped one of the heated screws onto the pcb, heard a sound much like a hamburger on a griddle, and now I have a nice screw-shaped crater on my motherboard. If you're gonna be stupid, you'd better be tough (or rich)
1) before my dad bought me a soldering iron, he gave me a lecture so i m like really scared about it so i m soo careful with it everytime i use it... i would tape the wires to the table so i wont accidentally knock the iron off and onto somewhere dangerous... ive been burned when i was younger watching my dad use it so yes, i know what it feels likeHinokagutsuchi said:Doing my first mod, and I've had three injuries. =D
1) Wiring up a new power switch, touched the iron somehow and burned my ring finger. I was holding it with my right hand, and holding the switch with my left. My ring finger was an inch or two away from the iron, and somehow I touched it.
2) I couldn't drill out a rivot, so I went to town with the dremel. I went to rotate it[it was loose, which is why I couldn't drill it out] and got burned.
3) I got careless with a dremel and got a groove in my left thumb from a cutting bit. It didn't break the skin, but made a little groove in the top few layers of skin. Got real lucky from that.
did you do that on the carpet?PawNtheSandman said:Thought I would be 1337 and mod a 2x20 BG Micro VFD into the door of my $200 Chenbro Cube. Something wasn't grounded right and the Micro fried when I moved the case door.
Now I have a useless hole. I am thinking of just cutting a huge rectangle and inserting the HD led activity lighting plexi mod that I am interested.
lol, you can always add a "mini-case-window"PawNtheSandman said:No I did it on a static mat. I just took the picture of the case on carpet. The FVD was $20, but I was already using it for 6+ months before I decided to put it in the case, so I figure I got my money out of it. I am more upset with the ugly hole in my case.
wayne said:1) before my dad bought me a soldering iron, he gave me a lecture so i m like really scared about it so i m soo careful with it everytime i use it... i would tape the wires to the table so i wont accidentally knock the iron off and onto somewhere dangerous... ive been burned when i was younger watching my dad use it so yes, i know what it feels like
2) i dont get it... how do you rotate it and get burned from that?
3) lucky lucky
wow, lolDudeItsMe said:I turned a great idea, into a really bad one.
My first mod, sleeving my power supply. My first mistake was not having a heat knife, as fraying really killed me on that one. Then there was the fact that I didn't know to bend the fins back out before putting the plugs in the molex connector. Most of them work, but they are very loose. I used a molex pin removing tool, so I thought it would all be dandy. I powered up my SATA hard drive without any power cable hooked up to it. The motherboard was trying to access it but there was no power, made lots of white smoke kinda stuff but I'm not sure how. And then probably the worst. I had a HardCano9 with too many fans hooked up to either Fan 1 or Fan 4 (the ones that support less fans). Melted the wiring on that one pretty bad.
Oh and perhaps my worst story. When inserting the temperature sensor on my brand new CPU, my friend bent a few pins. We tried to bend them back, and they fall off. Anyone want to buy a Socket 475? By the way, no blame goes to the friend because I knew he knew what he was doing better than me, so I figure I would have messed it up anyways. Took the hit and spent $300 on a new CPU.
My idea behind getting my computer fixed: Call up a friend smarter than you, order a pizza. Worked for me last time
hmmm, can you get a picture of what it looks like though?... i wanna see if the current state is bad or goodDudeItsMe said:I got bored one day and bent the crap out of the pins and made a bunch more fall off. I was actually going to do the same thing, but was too lazy. I probably have it sitting aroudn somewhere, but seeing how it is a mangled mess I'm sure you don't want it. I would have kept it had I thought of the fact that it could actually HELP someone out. I thought it was kinda useless personally
you can tell people your finger fell off and you reattached it!NewBlackDak said:The worst I've had was building my homemade pump relay. The phone rang while I was soldering, and I switched the iron to my left hand. I wasn't paying attention to it at all. Somehow the hot iron was resting on my wedding ring!! Luckily I had a cooler there to dunk my hand into. I had a NASTY blister all the way around my finger for awhile.
The second is not so bad, but still unfinished. I took black vinyl dye to all the plastic on an enlight beige case with full intentions to smooth the metal, and paint it all black. It still sits to this day black bezel, drives, and drive covers, and beige panels. Lazy I guess.
NewBlackDak said:The worst I've had was building my homemade pump relay. The phone rang while I was soldering, and I switched the iron to my left hand. I wasn't paying attention to it at all. Somehow the hot iron was resting on my wedding ring!! Luckily I had a cooler there to dunk my hand into. I had a NASTY blister all the way around my finger for awhile.
ok, okDudeItsMe said:Dude, Wayne, I butchered that thing. It's easy to tell I killed it. I doubt you would want it, and even if you did I wouldn't search for it. I'm 80% sure I trashed it. I have three computers taken apart in my room righ tnow, and now is not a good time to start searching. Plus it's not in the one spot I think it might be. Me being a pretty organized person, that means I don't have it. I'll PM you if it turns up. Post the pic, just for laughs, ya know.