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How to make a unique case for a flash drive with your own hands?
How to make a unique case for a flash drive with your own hands?
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In today's world, flash drives are universal media on which you can download different files (music, movies, games) and transfer them to other devices. Due to the fact that flash drives are very small and light, you can always carry them with you and, if necessary, open the files that are on them. To make your storage medium different from others, you can make a case for a flash drive with your own hands. Reasons for replacing the outer part may be as follows:

  • Damage to the outer shell of the flash drive.
  • Worn inscriptions printed on the case.
  • Annoying design.
  • Desire to make the case unique and beautiful.

A flash drive with an original and well-made case can be a great gift that will be remembered for a long time.

Required Materials

There are many ideas for making the shell of a flash drive. This article will consider a do-it-yourself wooden case for a flash drive.

For this you will need:

  1. Flash drive to be modified.
  2. Hunting knife or regular sharp knife.
  3. Glue (preferably a gun with rods).
  4. Pliers.
  5. A bar of the desired wood from which the body will be made.
  6. Sandpaper.

Production process

  1. First of all, you need to get the inside of the old flash drive, that is, remove the shell. To do this, you need a sharp knife so that you can pick up the edge and remove part of the body. If the shell consists of filler material, then with a knife you need to pry off the locking element, which is located near the front base of the flash drive. This must be done carefully so as not to touch the motherboard and not damage it.
  2. Flash drive motherboard
    Flash drive motherboard
  3. To make a case for a flash drive with your own hands, you need to prepare a new shell made of wood. To do this, you need to attach the removed part of the flash drive to the bar and draw lines with a pencil to cut the desired size.
  4. After cutting off the excess part of the tree, you need to cut the bar lengthwise into equal parts, and then cut out the details similar to the old case. The inside of the tree also needs to be removed to fit the motherboard.
  5. Wood blank
    Wood blank
  6. So that the cut recesses do not damage the mechanisms, you can process them with sandpaper.
  7. You also need to make the surface of the wood case itself smooth using the same paper.

Assembling a flash drive

Now it remains to fix the flash drive in its wooden frame. To do this, the device must first be inserted into one partcase, and then fill the entire surface with glue. Top with the second wooden part and squeeze the structure for a while with pliers so that the glue dries and keeps the shell intact.

This completes the assembly. All protruding elements of glue or wood can be cut off with a knife, and sharp edges can be smoothed with sandpaper. At this stage, the process of making a case for a flash drive with your own hands is completed.

Check device

After all the actions with the shell, of course, you need to check the performance of the flash drive. If all actions are done correctly and the contacts are not damaged, then the device will work fine.

Case types
Case types

There are also many other ideas on how to make a case for a flash drive with your own hands. For example, this can be done from:

  • small toys;
  • constructor details;
  • cartridge, etc.

Here you just need to use your imagination and make a unique thing.

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