LurkingLuddite

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  • The headphones I currently use (on my head right now) also have physical reinforcement, but instead of zip ties it’s just a thin tensile wire I had lying around. Tied it around a cylinder piece that broke off that holds a rotatable insert, superglue, and lots of extra wraps encased in superglue… and it’s perfect! … outside of where I was dumb and got glue between the rotatable faces and now it binds up a bit, but otherwise great. Replacement parts would’ve been like $35+.

    … I guess all of that is to say, physical reinforcement is excellent when it’s adding strength as opposed to replacing strength! (similar to OP, the superglue is a bit brittle for a one to one toughness fix).



  • physical reinforcement is a good suggestion lots are coming up with. If it’s not too late, I’d recommend doing that with something that dissolves the ABS instead of an adhesive. ABS dissolves readily with a few solvents, like acetone. Get physical reinforcement in place, and IF you do not need any bulk filler, just use a solvent like acetone to literally melt and repolymerize the plastic back together. As long as there’s no new gaps or new voids, the physical reinforcement should leave it stronger than the original. At least after all the solvent evaporates away.

    If you need gap filler or bulk reinforcement, two part epoxies are definitely the way to go, though make sure to use something quite flexible or it’ll just crack off the next time you drop them.









  • Honestly no idea. I just found it by seeing that it was near the top of the recommended distro lists on … some distro list website, and decided to give it a shot after reading the description.

    What bought me over was that it’s supposed to be just a solid distro based entirely on Debian Stable that happens to include a good few “MX Linux” tools, like the delivered nvidia driver install script, or the backup ISO creation, and whatnot.

    Unless I’m misunderstanding something, it’s supposed to be basically just Debian Stable with extras for convenience, and unless I’m misunderstanding/experiencing Debian, they’ve done a decent job. It’s beating the shit out of Manjaro and Ubuntu, but those aren’t exactly high bars, IMO.