Another day, another of the little one's things repaired with a hot air tool and a bit of poking.

So many people assume broken plastic is unrepairable garbage because it's hard to glue.

But if it's a thermoplastic, as almost all mass market plastic goods are, all you need to do is gently heat up the pieces until they soften and push them back together to form a solid weld. Filler rod can help in some cases but isn't always necessary or useful depending on the nature of the repair, for flat surfaces I've had decent results just using a screwdriver to lightly press the heat affected zones into each other until they merge.

ReworkCTF boards came in. I can't fully populate them because the Digikey order with the last couple of parts I need isn't coming until Monday but I should be able to populate the back side whenever.

I can also do one of the soldermask challenges, some of the back side inner layer rework, and the front side unpopulated BGA site rework if I want.

But first I have some logistics to sort out WRT streaming and which cameras go where etc to actually record the work. So I guess maybe that's going to be the afternoon project.