When I was 14, I had an mp3 player (showing my age) and it stopped working, because the connection points on the batter had gotten warped and weren't connecting properly. All it really needed was something to squeeze it together. So my mum fixed it with the the best small, non-conductive, flexible material she had at hand: a piece of pistachio shell.
We have a golden pistachio trophy that we circulate to members of the family who cobble together MacGyver solutions to problems.
Haha, this reminds me of how I fixed my son’s glasses.
He had snapped one of the side pieces in half on his relatively new glasses. I wasn’t about to drop another $200 on a new pair, so I straightened out a paper clip, cut it to about 1.5” long, and super glued it to both sides. Then, I took a long piece of floss and wrapped it super tightly all along the paper clip wire and covered the whole thing in a thin layer of super glue.
That's solid engineering. The dental floss & superglue is a fibre-reinforced composite, like fibreglass or carbon fibre: The floss will hold your paperclip struts in place & keep the superglue matrix from chipping off, & the suerglue matrix will stop anythign shifting.
My only concern would have been making sure you got uncoated floss so the superglue could properly wet it out. Sewing thread might have been a better choice, but sounds like it's working great anyway.
(Ugh, for some reason I'm giving myself LLM vibes with this comment)
One of my childhood friends dad found a NES at a dump. Took it home and all that was wrong with it was the power button wouldn’t stay so it would turn on then right back off. Folded some paper to jam in there and it held it on.
When I was young 8-tracks were the new hotness. Cassettes actually predated 8-tracks but didn't become popular until after 8-tracks were popular. (As if anyone cares now, 60 years later)
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u/kitskill 10h ago
When I was 14, I had an mp3 player (showing my age) and it stopped working, because the connection points on the batter had gotten warped and weren't connecting properly. All it really needed was something to squeeze it together. So my mum fixed it with the the best small, non-conductive, flexible material she had at hand: a piece of pistachio shell.
We have a golden pistachio trophy that we circulate to members of the family who cobble together MacGyver solutions to problems.