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USB drive altoid smalls mod

Step 4Cap it off

Cap it off
To finish, slide the cover into place and plug it into a computer. Make sure that it can smoothly slide into the port without the new case blocking it. If it does not work, you may need to go back to step 2, only making the hole bigger so that the usb comes out more.

Once the usb fits into the computer, test saving and opening files on it to assure that it is fine.
It runs a bit hot because of the metal tin, but it still works fine.

And now, you're done!

Update: I now have taken the dinky 512MB one and put in my new 4GB. This time I tried the hot glue, but I put a piece of duct tape on the bottom so that I can take it out if I start to hate it.
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Feb 5, 2008. 7:44 PMGizmo_gal says:
Nice trick. I cant wait to see my family do double takes as I hook up various things to the family pc. <,_,> o o

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