Today's retro activities:
- Cleaned lots of fans and assembled (back) some heatsinks with said fans.
- Washed an AsRock AM2NF4-SATA2 and MSI H61M-P31 motherboards in the sink... with lots of manual brushing. The AM2NF4-SATA2 is probably a lost case - it has a knocked out PI coil, electrolytic cap, missing top part of CPU socket, and looks like it came out from the bottom of a bird house, judging by all of the bird poo and crap on it. Definitely one of the dirtiest boards I've seen in a while. Probably gonna end up being a dead chipset board, being GeForce 6100-based. But hey, it only cost me slightly more than half a dollar. The Panasonic caps on the CPU VRM on it are easily worth 2x more... and actually, that's the sole reason I got the board. But then I checked online, and apparently there's a modded BIOS that allows Athlon X4 CPUs to run on these boards. So that's pretty cool and the reason why I will attempt to fix it. As for the MSI H61M mobo... that was also pretty dirty, but not nearly as much. Some corrosion near the LPC/SIO and the battery holder... probably because the board got wet when the CR2032 battery was still in it and had a charge. Aside from a physically busted fuse near the VGA port, I don't see anything else wrong. CPU LGA socket pins appear OK. With some luck, this could make a nice Sandy Bridge build. It has a Celeron G530 in it currently... though if it does work, I might put an i5-2400 in it.
And that's about all.
BitWrangler wrote on 2024-11-05, 04:15:
So I took a detour and threw together a speaker enclosure in about 30 mins... I wanted to mount the test speaker somehow so it wasn't just rattling around on the bench. So, this happened.
Haha, hilarious and genius at the same time! 😀
Reminds me of the images I used to collect back in the day from There-I-Fixed-It / Cheezburger network.
I think the first enclosure I saw like that was a pair of coke bottles with their bottoms drilled and speakers installed in there.
While in college, I also ran into a similar ordeal as you - basically had a small speaker that I wanted to test, so I quickly whipped up an "enclosure" just like you. In my case, the enclosure consisted of an empty 1 Gal. milk jug. Held the speaker in place with hot glue.
Sound quality? - Better than just the speaker sitting on my desk and directing the high frequencies towards the ceiling. But that's about all. As for the bass response... what bass??? 🤣 It's a PC speaker.
Then a year or three later, I wanted to a small amp board from a scrapped Sony CRT TV (that I found broken in pieces on the side of the road), along with the 3.5" speakers from it. I didn't have an enclosure and wanted to make something real real fast. As if by total miracle, I had an old ATX PSU opened on my bench (waiting for a recap) with its board out and its case sitting off to the side. It was one of those PSUs with a 92 mm fan on top. I removed the fan and simply dropped-in the speaker. It was almost a perfect fit, too. 🤣 Again, I can't say this "enclosure" did the speaker proper justice... but it was better than just the speaker running open-air. And for the 5 minutes of "work" I had to do, it was wonderful.