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Fail of the Week: A Bigger Hacksaw Isn’t a Better Hacksaw
If we’re being honest, the main reason to buy a power tool is to avoid the pain of using one’s muscles. Oh sure, we dress it up with claims that a power tool will make us more productive, or give...
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Fail of the Week: Bronze-Brazed Wrought Iron
[Will Stelter], a promising young blacksmith working out of Montana, had a terrific idea for a unique composite material for finishing off a knife build. This build is a collaboration between multiple...
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Fail of the Week: Car Starter Motors Aren’t the Best Fit for eBikes
A lot of what real engineering is all about is designing to the limits of your materials, with a healthy margin for error. On the other hand, seat-of-the-pants engineering often takes the opposite tack...
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Fail of the Week: This Flash Drive Will NOT Self-Destruct in Five Seconds
How hard can it be to kill a flash drive? Judging by the look of defeat on [Walker]’s face in the video below, pretty darn hard. To bring you up to speed, and to give the “Mission: Impossible”...
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Fail of the Week: PCB LED Cube Fails Successfully
Remember LED cubes? We sure do — they were all the rage for a while, and then it seemed like everyone just sort of lost interest in them. There are probably a lot of reasons for that, not least of...
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Fail of the Week: The Little Remote-Controlled Snowblower That Couldn’t
[Punxatawny Phil]’s prognostications aside, winter isn’t over up here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the snow keeps falling. If you’re sick of shoveling the driveway and the walk and you don’t have a...
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Fail of the Week: A Potentially Lethal Tattoo Removal Laser Power Supply
Caveat emptor is good advice in general, but in the wilds of eBay, being careful with what you buy could be life-saving. To wit, we present [Les Wright]’s teardown and very ginger power-up of an eBay...
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