On 04/04/11 19:23, Tony Duell wrote:
Be careful when taking it apart. THere are some small
washers, bushes,
spacers, etc in there. Oftnn they are stuck in place by the old grease
and you may not realise they are sparate parts until you apply the
solvent and they fall off and find a hidden corner of the workshop.
I'm wondering if it would be worth building some form of "small thing
disassembly box" to alleviate this problem.
Basically, you take a 40-litre under-bed storage box (~?5,
Poundstretcher), flip it upside down (thus turning the lid into the
base) and use a holesaw to drill two large holes in the side big enough
to put your hands through. Optionally attach some thin elbow-length
gloves to these holes so your hands go through the gloves and into the box.
This way, anything that decides to "ping" off into never-never-land will
be restricted to "pinging" into one of the walls of the box. Gravity
ensures that any tiny little things which choose to do this will end up
in or near the bottom of the box.
I've heard of similar things being done for hard drive repair -- though
this involves adding a HEPA filter to get rid of particles in the air.
The theory being that it's easier to keep a 1ft * 1ft * 2ft box clean
than it is to do the same to an entire room...
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/