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Take THAT, piece of junk lighter plug
I now have the Radio Shack 12V 7.5A DC Power Plug 270-1509. It cannot be taken apart either, but at least I can see (and MAYBE reach) where the connection gets made, which is a big win. (This plug also has a lot of crap I didn't need, like a power LED and a fuse. Oh well. I takes what I can gets.)
Now I have to get my wire out of the little connectors that came with the bad plug. It will be easier to pull off the connectors (soldered as they are) than cut the wire, because I've been doing the wire stripping with scissors, and I'm not very good at that. And here I thought this project wouldn't require any desoldering braid. Ha for my hubris, ha!
[Edit: One of the great things about working at a hardware company is that sometimes the lab guy will let you borrow wire strippers. Heh heh heh. Thing works like a charm. Project complete.]
One of these days I will learn that the quickest, easiest, least expensive, most effective, best at decluttering, simplest lifestyle, thing to do with an Ancient Unfinished Project is to throw it away.
Now I have to get my wire out of the little connectors that came with the bad plug. It will be easier to pull off the connectors (soldered as they are) than cut the wire, because I've been doing the wire stripping with scissors, and I'm not very good at that. And here I thought this project wouldn't require any desoldering braid. Ha for my hubris, ha!
[Edit: One of the great things about working at a hardware company is that sometimes the lab guy will let you borrow wire strippers. Heh heh heh. Thing works like a charm. Project complete.]
One of these days I will learn that the quickest, easiest, least expensive, most effective, best at decluttering, simplest lifestyle, thing to do with an Ancient Unfinished Project is to throw it away.
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but! but! but!!!
*stops and thinks for a second*
you know, you're so very right.
*grabs a big trash bag and heads for the garage*
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If there's one or two I absolutely can't bear to part with, fine. Even if I know I won't finish them. Perfection isn't required. 99 of them gone and one sticking around is still a lot of improvement over 100 of them sticking around!
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("probably"?????)
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Simple way: Go to Wal Mart. Buy cheap lighter extension cord. Cut receptacle end off. Wire cord ( with attached plug ) to meter. ( pack unused receptacle away for undisclosed future project -- in case you need it... ) Obtaining a cheap wire stripper tool will save MUCH grief too.
The radio shack lighter plugs are junk I'm afraid. As are many of the others. The whole connector style is an abomination. Especially in a high vibration environment like a car.
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I certainly have the tools for it. And good local sources of parts. And lots of extra wiring and antenae on the vehicles...
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I've never had trouble with the soldering part of it, but then I admit I haven't been using solder joints as a structural element. All I need is good electrical contact. Fixing jewelry with it seems like a harder problem.
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Good point about the structural vs. electrical contact -- I hadn't thought about it that way before.
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When my mother and I went through my grandmother's dressers after my grandmother's death we found scissors in various places -- amounting to between 6-8 pairs of scissors or so.
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When we went through my grandmother's house we found a lot of amazing stuff. A 1929 desk calendar. Handwritten household budget lists from some time when a load of groceries cost $1.27. Return envelopes of the kind that come with bills and such -- a big pile of them, assorted, all saved. Half a bicycle. It was really impressive in an eerie sort of way.
Were her scissors stashed in weird places? I'm imagining a pair of pinking shears tucked under the socks, some embroidery scissors in a hatbox, that sort of thing.
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Among some of the more interesting finds we found going through my grandmother's things were:
Finding that below one layer of my grandmother's scarves one drawer, was a lower layer of my grandfather's things... as if un-touched from when they were put there before he died (before I was born) in 1967-1968. (My grandmother passed on in 1996, she was 94.) It was a time-capsule for my mother who remembered that very drawer being "her father's drawer."...and in a music cabinet in the garage: Vintage sheet music, including one with a big picture of Shirley Temple on the cover.
Not quite odd places (well maybe they're odd, I'm not sure)... various places... several in different layers of a drawer that was mostly costume jewelry, in the bathroom with the curlers, desk drawers, another with the sewing machine, another 1-2 with the spools of thread in a cupboard. I remember putting together a "bouquet" handful of different types and sizes of scissors that had been found in various places.
A lot of things get collected in a lifetime.
Re: grandmother's things
(My grandmother was 94 also.)
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I'm also *excellent* at throwing stuff out. Sometimes it takes me a while to notice things that need to be thrown out, but once I do, man, I'm happy to do it. I wish I could make this a bankable skill... ('course, who needs me cluttering the landfills?)
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