The power jack on our laptop has been going out over the last couple weeks. We decided not to get the protection plan, because we couldn't aford it with the monster dog computer we wanted. So I opened her up. I re-soldered the jack several times, each time it went bad in a worse way. So I picked up a new jack from Radio Shack. It was heavy duty compared with the delicate thing attached to the mother board. I soldered it on with a length of wire, so that the connection wasn't in danger of being torqued, not that that could happen anyway, the jack is bolted to the case. I am very proud of it, my monster computer now has a monster jack. It works great.
All this gets me schemeing. I got an old LCD unit that you set on an overhead projector. It is insanely dim, but what's to stop me from super charging the overhead? I figure I'll get a bunch of really bright lights and mount them inside, I'll wire them seperately and give them their own mean switch. It'll be like hitting turbo, and viola, 5000 lumens! Ok, we'll see how that one turns out.
Speaking of electronics projects, my typewriter to keyboard conversion progresses nicely. I'm in the home stretch. All this tinkering makes me think about investing in a nice soldering iron.
