An Old Modem ---> a New Soldering Station Enclosure.

Do not throw away this old modem.

It can become an electronics project box.

I used it as an enclosure for a soldering station controller.

An eco friendly idea as well.

Less plastic waste.

• Power or hand drill,
• pliers,
• file
• m3 screws and nuts,
• screwdrivers,
• rubber feet.

I will not describe here the electronics side of the project.

One can find several designs online to implement,

either analog or microcontroller based ones (soldering station controller).

I will focus on the enclosure, the plastic case.

Plus one more idea for the potentiometer knob.

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First i opened the old modem removed everything from inside. (pliers).

Then i planned the position of each part, the pcb,

the connector, the potentiometer, and the on off switch.

I drilled the necessary holes.

I enlarged or modified the holes with files.

With files you can carefully erase all the letters and logos.

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note

The planning part is very important.

As you can see i used the enclosure upside down

since it was more planar on the down side.

I needed a knob for the potentiometer. A big one.

And then i came across this empty glue bottle!

I used the cap to make the potentiometer knob.

If the diameter of the pot shaft is small you can use heatshrink tube to make it bigger.

I finally used a pin to prevent self rotation as shown in the photo.

(i drilled the appropriate 0.8mm hole first).

The port you see is for 20V dc power.

The station is upside down in this photo to show the rubber feet.

I covered the modem unnecessary holes with plastic sheet from an old notepad.

The end.