Some equipment comes with a backstory so impressive, you can’t help but treat it with reverence. For instance, this Hantek scope’s front panel and knobs have melted when a battery pack went up in flames right next to it. Then, it got donated to the CADR hackerspace, who have in turn given us a scope front panel refurbishing master class (translated, original), demonstrating just how well a typical hackerspace is prepared for performing plastic surgery like this.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/01/02/explosion-scarred-scope-gets-plastic-surgery-hackerspace-style/