If you want to do something cool with your usb drives.

I had a couple of USB drives laying around. One was really old and only 1GB, the other I bought maybe a month ago, 16GB USB 3.0. Anyway, the old one had a weird plastic case that i played with taking it off and putting it on. The new USB drive had a case much larger than needed. I took the cases off both and then covered them in a layer of JB Weld. They work fine now, are smaller, and are almost indestructable! I would show some pics but I lost my camera.

 

I've made some undestructable and waterproof pen drives. I often sell them to friends. will post some pics later.

I've done some torture tests like 100meters fall, runover by a car, playing tenis, dropped into water in a swiming pool, dropped into the water on a beach. submerged by 48hours, submerged to 20meters, burried in earth for 24hours.
it resisted everything. it's cheap, small, light, easy to carry, undestructable. usb3.0 comming soon.
much stronger then JB Weld (epoxy) and with a good cap that doesn't fall off or break and makes it waterproof/dustproof.





if you would like me to make same other tests please ask.

 

I was kidding about the indestructible part, but they would definitely be more resilient now. I only did it because i wanted the drives to be smaller and sleeker, and the only way to get them as small as possible would be to remove the casing and coat them with a thin layer of epoxy. I would have used clear if I could, but I only had JB Weld on hand.

 

my objective was to make something durable because I'm always braking crappy plastic pen drives. I saw some durable ones but they were very expensive and huge. like corsair survivor. and it didn't seamed very durable either. so I decided to make my own.

I don't like very small pen drives because I'll lose them. there are very small ones with a size just a little bigger then an usb port. some don't even havethe full metal usb enclosure. I hate that. it's so fragile.
better off with a microSD reader. I posted in another topic about it. I want a small usb3.0 micro sd reader but I can only find full size ones. smaller ones are always usb2.0.

 

How about fire resistant?

 

Wow nice, I like it

 

not fire resistant sorry. I didn't even tested it for that. I'm sure it will destroy it. Sure it will resist a LOT more time under fire then a normal pen drive but eventually ofc it will fail.
making something fire resistant is extremely difficult and it would be very expensive, very big and very heavy. and nothing is trully 100% fire resistant.
but it is explosive proof. I ducked taped the pen drive to some fireworks. it survived. only the keyring was destroyed.

 

I like the Steam Punk ones. I was gonna try with old watch parts, but never did.

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