Hi Jacques… Of course, that’s what I was wishing I had while I was working on this, and definitely when I dropped the screw! But I did not, and of course I tend to want to just finish a job once I’ve started, not breaking to go find a new tool… So I just improvised with what I could find around the office. Cheers! -cvj
Yes, had I not found that I had a magnet, the next thing to go on the end of the chopstick was a bit of kneaded eraser (a bit like blue-tac but with less tac)…
Ha! Funny story, I had some friends over to play boardgames, and the cat decided to jump onto the table and attack the pieces. One small wooden game piece flew off…somewhere. We looked everywhere and couldn’t find it. Then on a hunch, I decided to pick up the subwoofer which was on the floor near the table, and shake it. And there it was! The cat had managed to bat it at just the right angle that it went into the sound hole of the subwoofer and was now swimming around inside.
On the other side of the sound hole is a tube that leads to the transducer on the circuit board, inside the speaker. This construction was intended for acoustics, and was such that no amount of jostling could ever make the piece fall back out.
So I tried chopsticks, but the tube was too narrow to allow the chopsticks to open wide enough to grab the piece. In the end, the solution that worked was chopstick plus blue tac.
Major breakthrough here! I think I can now start making yeast-risen bread again, which I’ve not been doing since I switched to gluten-free baking. Some online research revealed that the key is psyllium husk! The best use of it I’ve seen is on…1/2 #baking #foodanddrink
Too hot to be in the kitchen for long, so a swift turning of some tomatoes from the garden into a pasta sauce for dinner seemed a good tack… #gardening #foodanddrink
On my way back from LA where I was participating in a panel discussion about (in part) possible futures, and AI. Then just watched this little robot very cleverly navigate some pathways on the #UCLA campus, avoiding stairs, figuring out where the ramps were…
Major breakthrough here! I think I can now start making yeast-risen bread again, which I’ve not been doing since I switched to gluten-free baking. Some online research revealed that the key is psyllium husk! The best use of it I’ve seen is on…1/2 #baking #foodanddrink
Too hot to be in the kitchen for long, so a swift turning of some tomatoes from the garden into a pasta sauce for dinner seemed a good tack… #gardening #foodanddrink
On my way back from LA where I was participating in a panel discussion about (in part) possible futures, and AI. Then just watched this little robot very cleverly navigate some pathways on the #UCLA campus, avoiding stairs, figuring out where the ramps were…
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Duct tape leaves a horrible residue. I needed to have dinner with those chopsticks shortly after! 🙂
-cvj
A bit disappointed you chose double-stick tape rather than the classic duct tape……
Hi Jacques… Of course, that’s what I was wishing I had while I was working on this, and definitely when I dropped the screw! But I did not, and of course I tend to want to just finish a job once I’ve started, not breaking to go find a new tool… So I just improvised with what I could find around the office. Cheers! -cvj
Two words: magnetized screwdriver.
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Yes, had I not found that I had a magnet, the next thing to go on the end of the chopstick was a bit of kneaded eraser (a bit like blue-tac but with less tac)…
Ha! Funny story, I had some friends over to play boardgames, and the cat decided to jump onto the table and attack the pieces. One small wooden game piece flew off…somewhere. We looked everywhere and couldn’t find it. Then on a hunch, I decided to pick up the subwoofer which was on the floor near the table, and shake it. And there it was! The cat had managed to bat it at just the right angle that it went into the sound hole of the subwoofer and was now swimming around inside.
On the other side of the sound hole is a tube that leads to the transducer on the circuit board, inside the speaker. This construction was intended for acoustics, and was such that no amount of jostling could ever make the piece fall back out.
So I tried chopsticks, but the tube was too narrow to allow the chopsticks to open wide enough to grab the piece. In the end, the solution that worked was chopstick plus blue tac.
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Chopsticks are excellent multitaskers! We once had a neighbor who would use them to pick bugs off of garden vegetable plants.
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