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Ideally, you cut out the area of the case that you need to, to get access to the leads, do your repair to the wires, and add a strain relief. Many types of strain reliefs are available.
Then, a 2-component epoxy is poured in to seal the strain relief to the housing.
John

Why toroidal, Mike?
You're best bet is to research surplus houses, new off-the-shelf will narry be cheap!

Truly unique, dacflyer, but hands on a clock are so much easier to read! Maybe it's from my time-telling training (a very long, long 'time' ago!), but even reading a digital clock requires some math to "know" what time it is, don't you think? 11:19 requires math to know its about 20 past 1...

Integrated Devices Technology, Santa Clara, CA.
You're going to need a part number to identify them.
John

perfectbite- Turns out Home Despot wasn't making things up after all, at least according to Fluke-
"CATS Explained"- http://www.fluke.com/download/library/1263690_w.pdf<p>

Good question about CAT III, though!
I'm searching for it too!

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/Cat_5.html<p>Courtesy of Google.

Am I missing something? What does any of this have to do with our forum encouraging "Build to Order" of electronics projects?
Shopping carts? NASA?

idontknow-
Running 18 volts on a 12 volt motor may soon become a fuel pump/heater.
How about a fuel cooler to increase fuel density?

haklesup- I see your point. In many ways, the service has been and is, right here, all along. Most folks probably think of this forum, as I had thought, as just an information swap, not a hardware outlet! But, we're growing! Keep those projects coming!

dacflyer- laser cutter here.
What metal? How thick? What precision is needed in hole placement, and finally, are the holes in a repeatable pattern? I'll be glad to quote you! Am I correct in assuming this is a one-piece project?
John

Sounds like the motor is maxing out the capacity of that power supply, during the full load. What is it you're trying to achieve? Faster cocking? If so, you'd be better off with battery-assist than a capacitor since the energy you need is so large. Any info you can supply about the motor would help ...

As you've noticed, I'm all for the idea!
And you're correct in seeing the market for small hardware projects that are sometimes too much or untimely for some people to build themselves!
Count me in!
John

OK, lobsterman- check out "Astable operation", about halfway through this tutorial. Complete with timer RC calculations.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/555/555.html
I build for fresh lobster!

John

Assuming you're using top-of-the-line rechargeables, how about making the pen assembly twice as long, and add two more AA's in parallel? Either that or making the battery assembly a snap-lock affair to facilitate easy swapping with a charged set. Sorry, but there's not a lot of options to put more e...