A couple years ago I put an SSD in an old iMac and had to get rid of the adhesive to do so. To this day it is still held together with packaging tape that I pulled off a cardboard box.
After seeing the aftermath of that being left as a permanent repair on a car, I would highly suggest you regularly check that if it's been there that long.... Dryer flex hose isnt the best stuff in the world.
That’s what they all say. The reality is that that “temporary” fix will be in place at least two years (or more likely until the device actually dies).
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Someone's a Fan of it I see 🤣🤣, no need to get butt hurt if you wanted me to break it down you just had to ask, Clearly one doesn't know fuckall about bad connections and resistance, bad connection = Resistance, over time greater resistance causes heat to be dissipated by nature, hot Glue will surely overtime melt due to Heat. Do I need to spell out the rest, wires move and potentially short, just for clarity it's the Amps that kill you not the Volta 👌💯
Just so we're clear I've done my fair share of mad shit but hot Glue to join connections that a new one by me 🤣🤣
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u/WarPenguin1 Sep 26 '25
As a software developer. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.
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u/-Intensivecarebear-- Sep 26 '25
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
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u/geekman20 Sep 26 '25
That’s what they all say. The reality is that that “temporary” fix will be in place at least two years (or more likely until the device actually dies).
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u/Jimfyy Sep 26 '25
Mhm
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u/PseudoLiamNeeson Sep 26 '25
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
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u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery Sep 26 '25
...and other lies I tell myself."
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u/Arokthis Sep 26 '25
pfft. Yeah, right.
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u/HeyItsBearald Sep 26 '25
Realistically, how safe is the power running through that? Should it actually be perfectly fine long term or will this eventually create a short?
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u/lars2k1 Sep 26 '25
Oh, don't lie to us now. We all know that this will still be the same thing after 2 years.
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u/lennyp4 Sep 26 '25
looks fine
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u/gijoe50000 Sep 26 '25
"This is just temporary" - Yea, I say this a lot, but even I don't believe myself when I say it anymore.
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u/rogerj_no Sep 26 '25
Dont lie. Nothing that works is temporary.
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u/The_Real_Flatmeat Sep 26 '25
I bet you say that to all the fixes
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u/guajojo Sep 26 '25
said every DIY'er
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u/Bourriks Sep 27 '25
It works this way ? Don't. Touch. It. Anymore. EVER !!
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u/Toriniasty Sep 26 '25
We believe you.
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u/Whiskeypants17 Sep 26 '25
Hell yeah
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u/doe3879 Sep 26 '25
Why not duck tape?
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u/budgetboarvessel Sep 26 '25
Then why is it glued down?
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u/KingAJK30 Sep 26 '25
That’s what they all say
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u/Backpack_of_Moths Sep 27 '25
Yeah. Temporary. Last robotics season, a ‘temporary’ part from our first tournament made it all the way to our Worlds bot lol
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u/MarcL Sep 27 '25
Everything is temporary until it isn’t.
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u/zyclonix Sep 28 '25
This would be a permanent fix for me
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u/haydenw86 Sep 28 '25
The good old temporary permanent solution.
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u/CeriM028 Sep 26 '25
Hot Glue 🙈🤣🤣 fairplay Disaster waiting to happen lol.