Another week of tips and techniques that Make: readers will hopefully find useful. Don’t forget to share in the comments below any tips that you’ve come across in your travels. This week’s column was almost entirely submitted to me by Make: readers and staff members.
Keep ’em coming, folks!Organizing Tiny Hardware
Make: reader brucej offered this in response to a tip in “Tips of the Week” for 6/2/17 about poking small screws through cardboard when disassembling something to keep your hardware all straight: “The screws/cardboard thing is a good trick but is only good for larger screws and such. For things with truly teensy screws (like laptops, cameras, etc.) I have a piece of convoluted foam (aka eggshell foam) like this that I use. You can drop screws into the divots and they’ll stay there. Even better, they’ll stay in place while you stick your fingers in another divot to retrieve them. I haven’t lost a single screw working on laptops since I started using this. It was free out of the box for some piece of equipment we ordered.
Here’s a great one from Izzy Swan. In a recent video where he builds a gorgeous wooden box for a wooden watch, he uses CA glue and an activator to temporarily hold on hinges before gluing. In the video, also note how he sprays down the activator first and then he glues and places the hinges.
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