{"id":304,"date":"2002-11-13T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2002-11-13T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T23:15:00","slug":"soldering-maniac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/13\/soldering-maniac\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldering Maniac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finally got my Lik-Sang order yesterday: a replacement GBA Afterburner cover and a new Afterburner kit.  During the process of re-installing the kit, I realized a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I had accidentally left a protective sheet on before, this is why it looked grainy (but still had lots of bubbles).\n<li> Even if you&#8217;re very careful, you can still get bubbles in the film.  I have two thumbtack-sized ones on the screen now.  It&#8217;s still a lot less than before, but still noticeable.\n<li> The replacement cover&#8217;s holes were not pre-threaded, as I discovered as I completely ground out one of the screws, rendering the GBA unre-openable.  The gamebit screws, which previously I could screw by cramming a small flathead screwdriver in, require more torque than I can deliver by this method, so I have to buy a gamebit screwdriver just to tighten the thing up.\n<li> I accidentally left a piece attached to the old cover, but didn&#8217;t realize it until I had ground the screw down as above.  So now, I&#8217;ll have to deal with the fact that the power LED glows from within the GBA, and doesn&#8217;t appear as a dot on the cover.\n<li> With the brightness dial installed, the protective film not in there, and ignoring the bubbles&#8230; it looks <b>SO NICE<\/b>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finally got my Lik-Sang order yesterday: a replacement GBA Afterburner cover and a new Afterburner kit. During the process of re-installing the kit, I realized a few things: I had accidentally left a protective sheet on before, this is why it looked grainy (but still had lots of bubbles). Even if you&#8217;re very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/13\/soldering-maniac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soldering Maniac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}