How to Make a Usb Cap From Junk

by LDN Machines in Circuits > USB

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How to Make a Usb Cap From Junk

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on this instructable i will teach you on how to make a usb cap from junk plastic



Materials...

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what you need is:

1.junk plastic

2. some fire for heating and melting the plastic or you can use anything to melt the parts of the plastic that needs melting

3. sand paper

4. hack saw blade

Making the Usb Cap Part 1

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first cut a long rectangle on the plastic following the size of the usb that needs to be covered,
then heating the part of the plastic that needs to bend and it should look like this

Making the Usb Cap Part 2

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after the bending process, each end of the bended plastic must be covered so i bonded the other ends of the bended plastic to another plastics by melting both ends of the plastics, but you can use glue instead, i dont have any glue so i just melted the plastic.

Making the Usb Cap Final Part

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after the bonding process the unwanted plastic must be removed so i used the hack saw blade to remove it, and after sanding the edges it looked like this.

this cap was for my converted mp3 player, you can see how i made it on my other instructable

now you can make your own usb cap!!!!