Poor design thread

[Grebel]

the bigger the problem, the bigger the hammer / mallet? 

 

And if you can't fix it with a hammer, then you have an electrical problem.

[Long Wheel Base]

And if you can't fix it with a hammer, then you have an electrical problem.

All electrical devices have smoke inside them and once the smoke comes out it can no longer be fixed.

[Grebel]

All electrical devices have smoke inside them and once the smoke comes out it can no longer be fixed.

 

One should NEVER release the magic blue smoke... 

[droo]

Having moved down to CT from Gauteng at the beginning of this year I can conclusively say that the traffic in CT is a million times worse than Gauteng. Gauteng is bad, but the roads are built to take the traffic and it moves - slowly - but it moves; in CT you just sit.

 

And people in CT drive like ***holes! On the N2 your only option is 160 in the left lane, or 80 in the right lane. Crazy that people don't realise the fastest and safest way to travel on the N2 is to go the speed limit without weaving in and out of traffic.

 

Rant off.

 

Fixed.

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

2 chain whips, a bench vice, a mallet and a drift

 

Unlock all the cogs with the chain whips, pull the driver off the hub, rest the spider on the jaws of the vice and knock the body out with a hammer and a drift.

 

OR just buy an industry 9 hub and never have issues again.................

[Neverfit]

These little cables from Hell.... Costs an arm and a leg and only lasts a few months.

Non OEM cables tend to last from 1 week to 1 year before the phone wakes up and just decide F@ckit...I won't charge from you again!

[The Ouzo]

These little cables from Hell.... Costs an arm and a leg and only lasts a few months.

Non OEM cables tend to last from 1 week to 1 year before the phone wakes up and just decide F@ckit...I won't charge from you again!

I dont understand this, I've had iphones since the 3, never had issues with cables like other people tend to do.

Not sure what people do with their cables, the one in your pic still looks ok compared to some that I've seen.

 

But yes, non OEM ones all seem to be different levels of crap. with the amount of money I've spent on non OEM cables I could have just gotten myself 2 extra OEM ones and be done with it. (I like to leave one cable at home and have one in the office,)

 

At one stage I spent a pretty penny on a braded cable with a magnetic connector to the phone (much like a macbook mag connector), it worked fine for a short while then just gave up.

[droo]

These little cables from Hell.... Costs an arm and a leg and only lasts a few months.

Non OEM cables tend to last from 1 week to 1 year before the phone wakes up and just decide F@ckit...I won't charge from you again!

 

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

[Long Wheel Base]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

Some decent free advice right here. 

[the nerd]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

 

Step Three - Go to the hardware and get some heatshrink, cover the spring and some of the cable... last forever!

[TIB]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

 

 great advice and even if they do it 90% will still use the cable to pull out the connector   

[droo]

 great advice and even if they do it 90% will still use the cable to pull out the connector   

 

THis is half user error and half design fail - if the designer can foresee how the product will be (mis)used, they should design around this.

 

But they sell more cables the way they're doing it now, so no reason to change...

[The Ouzo]

Step one - don't abuse your cables. 

 

Step two - take the spring from a ballpoint, wrap it round the cable, and push it up to the connector. Job done.

that applies to OEM cables, the non OEM ones the contacts on the connector wear out before the cable gets a chance to get damaged

[droo]

that applies to OEM cables, the non OEM ones the contacts on the connector wear out before the cable gets a chance to get damaged

 

Buy cheap, buy twice...

[Long Wheel Base]

Office Printers.......Well the one we have at least. Well not the printers fault really. Our zerox only has one tray for paper but we need to print on a few different colours. White is obviously the main colour so we have an unwritten rule that the tray be filled with white and if you need to print in pink, blue, green or yellow you just put the required amount in(usually only 1 or 2 pages and sometimes up to 4 copies) and once you done it's just white again. I just printed 10 pages from an aircraft manual and the first 4 pages are pink!!!!!!!!!!!! so now I must re print just the first 4 pages. They should make the tray clear so we can see when someone has just grabbed a stack of coloured paper and put it in the tray when they only need 2 pages.

Luckily if I select a few options on the touchscreen I can see who the last few people to print were, Just k@kked my supervisor out for being lazy!!!!

[Chingy182]

People's interpretation of how a traffic circle works.

 

Or how 2 consecutive robots in Cape Town CBD 50m apart are not in-Timberlake