If you’ve read this post, or this, or this, then you might be interested in another great ghetto hack. But for this one I had to grab deep back into time. With a little help of the WaybackMachine I got this back to present: The Ghettotenna. A great story, btw.
Found in the abyss: glitch13.com via archive.org.
After hearing that his video card might be repairable by heating it up to reflow it, this user did just that. He stripped it down and tossed it in his oven. It’s amazing how often this type of hackish repair works. We’ve heard of people using candles on ibooks, tossing video cards in ovens and wrapping an xbox 360 in a towel and running it for 30 minutes to get it hot enough to reflow itself. Why even bother with controlled temperatures and exact measurements? What other crazy fixes have you had to employ? We had a Playstation that only worked upside down.
Well, I once had for myself a 2.5″ hard disk that operated as long as one would keep waving it gently around. A kind of gyro-driven hard disk.
