The lock button on my car key fob hasn’t been working for ~ 6 months. I was looking at buying a new key fob for between $9 to $35, but something told me to take it apart.
Some isopropyl alcohol, a used toothbrush, and 5 minutes later I discovered some kind of sticky blue goop had infiltrated my key fob. After a quick brush down and slight emersion of the lock button, my key fob is now working again.
I had a 20+ Yr old car with a key fob that had broken, so it would stay on a key ring and wouldn’t stay closed.
Wreckers wanted $700 for a new key fob case as I’d have to buy the whole second hand keyless entry system.
A small 3d printer cost $650.
I bought the printer, then designed and printed my own key fob case, including replacing the worn out rubber buttons with some harvested out of an old kitchen timer.
No one was ever impressed or interested with the whole thing, so I figured this meets the criteria for inclusion here…
Awesome job. And you got a 3-D printer out of it.
Impressed and interested. May even not be dull enough for this community 🤔
That’s quite the key fob journey, though!
I’m curious as to the 3d printer. How long ago was this and where are you located that a small printer was $600+? And is this USD or?
It was Flashforge Adventurer 3, and was $600 AUD, this was all pre COVID.
Ah. Flashforge and Oz. That answers all, thanks :-)
I was gonna say, my first 3d printer was a DaVinci MiniMaker for about $250 USD back around 2014 or so, so $600 for a small printer was blowing my mind.
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