Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Turning a "munny" into a USB cable extension socket

Hacking model into USB extension socketGrab adhesiveThis is a hack job on one of my daughter's models. She has rejected it, but it's too lovely to discard, so here it is half way through being turned into a USB extension lead socket - an unnecessarily OTT socket maybe, but certainly more fun than a dull black plastic housing...

The mouth has been built up using grab adhesive, widely used in building to attach cladding, etc.. This is a surprisingly good modelling material: workable, but fast drying and hard when set

Hacking model into USB extension socket
Hacking model into USB extension socket

Working backwards here, before the final mouth remodelling above, the USB socket had to be fitted to the existing model.


This is a normal extension lead, placed into a cavity hacked out of the mouth, then glued in place with hot glue







Hacking model into USB extension socket
Hacking model into USB extension socket


The hack job to put the hole in the face is on the left.

the feed hole to get the cable in from below is on the right







here's the cable and original model before surgery!!
Hacking model into USB extension socket

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