From the Basingstoke workshop
Prints, repairs and builds that have come off the bench lately. Photos of recent jobs, plus deep-dive write-ups of the trickier ones.
A Basingstoke engineering consultancy uploaded an STL, paid four minutes later and had PETG parts posted the next morning. £13.45 all in.
Read the story →A free community adapter design plus a product gap turned into Hark Tech's most-ordered printed kit. The full story, including why the complete set matters.
Read the story →An original Switch that wouldn't charge or power on had a bent USB-C pin. New port fitted, then a new battery after it had drained to around 1V.
Read the story →A knocked Lexar Go 2TB SSD kept dropping out. No spare plug is sold, so we straightened, refitted and epoxied the original. Data never touched.
Read the story →A Sony XF9005 showed the logo, went black and rebooted. We bench-tested the power board, found it healthy and pointed the owner to the right main board.
Read the story →A Game Gear with scrambled, overlapping graphics and white screens. We traced it to one broken video RAM address line and fixed it with a bridge wire.
Read the story →How to open a SkyTrak+ golf launch monitor, step by step with photos, and how we replaced its torn USB-C charging socket.
Read the story →A 1991 Game Gear that had never been opened, with a dim, flickering screen and no sound. Leaking capacitors had eaten a ground pad. Full recap, original screen kept.
Read the story →One channel of a potted Lentek moving-coil head amp was 9dB down. Every component measured good; the fault was ageing solder joints. Both channels now match to within 0.3dB.
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Deep dive
Quiet main outputs traced to a leaking capacitor on the main board. Board cleaned, joints renewed and a new backup battery fitted. Owner confirmed normal output and restored memory.
Read the story →Hark Tech prints a range of decorative lamps and wall pieces for UK gift shop The Enchanted Charm Collective. Production printing for shops without printers.
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Short clips of real jobs in progress, no staging, just the bench.
A big organic sculpture filling most of the build volume, printed lying back on supports, a long run compressed into a minute and a half.
A scaled dragon egg in rainbow silk PLA, the colour shifting as the layers climb.
Two small clamp collars with bolt bosses, the kind of quick functional part that goes from file to fitted in a day.
Large curved housing sections printed as one batch, running right up to the top of the build volume.
A round housing with an overhanging rim, carried by organic tree supports that snap away cleanly once the print is done.
A layered daisy with overlapping white petals around a yellow centre, a quick decorative print.
A sliced play-food cookie with pink icing and sprinkles, printed in a single run with the multi-colour system.
A two-colour hose adapter for a portable air conditioner, grey body with a red sealing ring, using nearly the full plate on the Bambu Lab P2S.
Our new Bambu Lab P2S running a multi-part batch print — clean first layers, several parts laid down in one go.
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