Tag: holder

AI assisted construction of a Euro coin holder (#P48)

Yeah everything AI is cool at the moment, but can it do useful stuff as well? I recently got fed up with the plastic bag that I throw surplus coins into and wanted some kind of holder for easy dispensal. Doesn’t have to be a fancy mechanism (although that would be neat), I just need to temporarily store a few coins in an orderly fashion. I simply like to leave the house with a known, useful amount of assorted Euro coins, that’s all.

Searching the interwebs yielded this item from jeremrem: thing 55855

Nice, but not perfect. For whatever reason, the slots aren’t evenly spaced. […]

7th September 2025 9th September 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

JBC HDE soldering station repair/refurbishment (WHL #86)

Do you own one of those very expensive JBC soldering stations?
A damaged or defective one, maybe with a display (with salt water ingress) like this?

Or an abused case with pinky-sized holes and damaged inner wiring like this? (after a lot of cleaning!)

Or a smashed stand with dislocated tip holder (and several 3D printed replacements that all shattered like the original one after hard impacts on the floor) like this and this?

Or just a soldering iron with broken wiring near the moulded handle, caused by people ripping apart the bend relief and then folding it even tighter because they can…like this? […]

16th April 2023 16th April 2023 By Bzzz In 2 Comments

10Pcs Electric Car Bike Toy Battery 18650 Spacer Radiating Holder Bracket Black (WHL #22)

…and 10PC 18650 Battery 4×5 Cell Spacer Radiating Shell Plastic Holder Bracket KT0569 as well (yeah, the second one is misleading, I know).

Today, I have some mechanical parts in preparation for another project. These are stackable 18650 battery holders without electrical contacts. I have some more holders for pure storage and also single (non-stackable) battery holders with contacts, but these are something in between.

Let’s have a look:

I actually ordered two variants of them, and as usual, a seller that has the one type doesn’t have the other in stock and vice versa – or they are super expensive. […]

8th April 2017 17th September 2017 By Bzzz In No Comment