Take THAT, piece of junk lighter plug

[cjsmith]

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.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could beam some of that throw-it-out skill over here! I admit cluttering the landfills is one reason I am reluctant to throw things away, but another is that I'm sentimentally attached to a whole lot of this crap. (Meanwhile I refuse to get sentimentally attached to PEOPLE. What's up with that? Feh!)

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

People kinda creep up on me. I'll be going along, thinking how wonderfully independent I am, then *whammo*, I realize how important someone is to me...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's a little sad and a little scary and can also be pretty good, too...