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Step 5Final preperations on the reels
By the way: Don't care about the hotglue, I simply forgot to take some pictures, sorry...
An usb-hub is small, but we have to make space inside the cassette. The first picture shows how it schould look (exact cuts depends on your hub).
So take out your usb-hub, seperate it from its casing (every hub is different, so i didn't include pictures for this step, but many hubs are realy easy to open: just look for the gap between the two halfs of the case and pry it open with a srewdriver, and if force doesn't work, try a bit more force (but carefull :-) )
Take a look how much place the hub will take, and also look which parts of the reels will be visible from the outside through the "windows" of the cassette.
Now it's time to heat up your soldering iron, if you have an old, dirty tip, use it, we'll use the soldering iron to melt the tape together so it won't unroll when we cut the reels...
Simply push the hot iron through the tape and the plastic of the reel. Open a window or do this outside, the fumes aren't very healthy. You have to burn at least 4 holes, 2 on every reel. No cut away all plastic parts that are in the way of the hub, the easiest way is to slice it with a sharp knive and then simply break it off with the plier.
An usb-hub is small, but we have to make space inside the cassette. The first picture shows how it schould look (exact cuts depends on your hub).
So take out your usb-hub, seperate it from its casing (every hub is different, so i didn't include pictures for this step, but many hubs are realy easy to open: just look for the gap between the two halfs of the case and pry it open with a srewdriver, and if force doesn't work, try a bit more force (but carefull :-) )
Take a look how much place the hub will take, and also look which parts of the reels will be visible from the outside through the "windows" of the cassette.
Now it's time to heat up your soldering iron, if you have an old, dirty tip, use it, we'll use the soldering iron to melt the tape together so it won't unroll when we cut the reels...
Simply push the hot iron through the tape and the plastic of the reel. Open a window or do this outside, the fumes aren't very healthy. You have to burn at least 4 holes, 2 on every reel. No cut away all plastic parts that are in the way of the hub, the easiest way is to slice it with a sharp knive and then simply break it off with the plier.
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