Phone picturs of a messy workbench in the middle of a few projects. My radio alarm clock made in 2001 is sitting open in the middle with a soldering iron, resistors and hand tools all around it.
Close-up shot of the inside of my radio alarm clock showing the two new resistor I soldered in place of the old volume pot. The volume dial is still there, just useless. This hack locks the volume of the radio to around 10%
A picture of one of my storage cabinet with 60 tiny drawers containing a different value resistor. I own resistors ranging from 10 ohm all the way up to 2.2 mega ohm. It's projects like this one that makes me happy I kept most of the parts and tools I've accumulated over the years. And gained knowledge from experience, too!
My 25 years old radio alarm clock was randomly jumping to 100% volume. So I pulled the volume pot out of it and replaced it with fixed resistors. I tuned the values for a low volume. Now I get to fall asleep to local FM radio without jump scares!
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