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  • I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.

    If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.

    Edit: Regardless of what new stick you choose, it might be worthwhile to reinforce it by drilling a hole in the center of its post and inserting a metal rod.

    I don’t know the particulars of these devices, though. It’s possible that the stem part of the stick might be too short to easily work with, or the potentiometer assembly might be resist disassembly. Good luck!


  • I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.

    If there’s a hackerspace / makerspace in your area, someone there might be able to help.

    Edit: The idea here is to make something that is stronger than the original stick or any cheap plastic replacement, in order to address OP’s recurring problem. (I thought that was obvious, but there’s at least one rude person here who apparently didn’t follow.)



  • Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.

    Cloudflare can read and even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.







  • Bar Keepers Friend:

    According to the February 26, 2020 Safety data sheet (SDS), Bar Keepers Friend Cleanser contains:

    • 85–94% glass oxide (CAS 65997-17-3),
    • 5–10% oxalic acid (CAS 144-62-7), and
    • 1–5% benzene sulfonic acid, mono C10–16 derivatives, sodium salt (CAS 68081-81-2).

    Bon Ami:

    The product called “original” contains only feldspar. For other products, the Bon Ami website lists the following as main ingredients: feldspar, limestone, water, baking soda, citric acid, corn alcohol, epsom salts, essential oils, and xanthan gum.