/diy/ - Do It Yourself

So I have this expensive wireless headset I bought eons ago. Unfortunately, it has a design flaw where the standoffs in the brackets for the earcups fucking snap off after a year. Since the brackets clamp onto a shaft on the earcup, the earcup dangles uselessly by a few tiny fucking wires.

So, since I had this happen before on another headset, I decided to get out my old Craftsman drill and went out to the Homeless Despot and picked up a shitty drillbit set and selected a bit slightly bigger than the original screw holes, but not bigger than the slots in the stainless steel headband that must also be clamped. After spending hours trying to clamp the fucking thing in this shitty plastic vice my dad gave me (which ended up mangling the fuck out of the clamp), I ended up gripping the clamp in my hand, pressing the two broken halves together to maintain alignment while I used my other hand to guide the drill, using a stack of cardboard to protect my countertop.

Somehow, I managed not to fuck up my hand nor the counter, and get the holes drilled. I rummaged around and could not find appropriate machine screws, so I used a fat ziptie I use for cables.

The outcome is that it's actually far more robust and stronger than the original. The other bracket's about to pull the same shit, so as soon as it does, I'll be ready.