Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics
Admit it: you love to explore how things work. Screwdriver and pliers in hand, no castoff electronics or old appliances are safe. But once you’ve pulled apart your prey, do you really just want to screw it back together again . . . assuming you could? Unscrewed is the perfect resource for all UIYers—Undo It Yourselfers—looking to salvage hidden treasures or repurpose old junk.

Author Ed Sobey will show you how to safely disassemble more than 50 devices, including: Laser Printer, Radio-Controlled Car, Zip Drive, Videocassette Recorder, Paper Shredder, Audiocassette Player, Electric Drill, Computer Mouse, Keyboard, Fax Machine, Joystick, Floppy Drive, Videocassette Camera, Electric Clock, and More!

Each deconstruction project includes a “treasure cache” of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions, with photos, on how to extract the working components. It also includes suggestions on how to repurpose your electronic finds. Why pay good money to an electronics store when you probably already have what you need in that old VCR, printer, or hair dryer? Fight the mindset of planned obsolescence—there’s technological gold in that there junk!

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Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics
Admit it: you love to explore how things work. Screwdriver and pliers in hand, no castoff electronics or old appliances are safe. But once you’ve pulled apart your prey, do you really just want to screw it back together again . . . assuming you could? Unscrewed is the perfect resource for all UIYers—Undo It Yourselfers—looking to salvage hidden treasures or repurpose old junk.

Author Ed Sobey will show you how to safely disassemble more than 50 devices, including: Laser Printer, Radio-Controlled Car, Zip Drive, Videocassette Recorder, Paper Shredder, Audiocassette Player, Electric Drill, Computer Mouse, Keyboard, Fax Machine, Joystick, Floppy Drive, Videocassette Camera, Electric Clock, and More!

Each deconstruction project includes a “treasure cache” of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions, with photos, on how to extract the working components. It also includes suggestions on how to repurpose your electronic finds. Why pay good money to an electronics store when you probably already have what you need in that old VCR, printer, or hair dryer? Fight the mindset of planned obsolescence—there’s technological gold in that there junk!

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Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics

Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics

by Ed Sobey
Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics

Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics

by Ed Sobey

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Overview

Admit it: you love to explore how things work. Screwdriver and pliers in hand, no castoff electronics or old appliances are safe. But once you’ve pulled apart your prey, do you really just want to screw it back together again . . . assuming you could? Unscrewed is the perfect resource for all UIYers—Undo It Yourselfers—looking to salvage hidden treasures or repurpose old junk.

Author Ed Sobey will show you how to safely disassemble more than 50 devices, including: Laser Printer, Radio-Controlled Car, Zip Drive, Videocassette Recorder, Paper Shredder, Audiocassette Player, Electric Drill, Computer Mouse, Keyboard, Fax Machine, Joystick, Floppy Drive, Videocassette Camera, Electric Clock, and More!

Each deconstruction project includes a “treasure cache” of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions, with photos, on how to extract the working components. It also includes suggestions on how to repurpose your electronic finds. Why pay good money to an electronics store when you probably already have what you need in that old VCR, printer, or hair dryer? Fight the mindset of planned obsolescence—there’s technological gold in that there junk!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781569766040
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/01/2011
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 510,060
Product dimensions: 8.76(w) x 6.06(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ed Sobey is the author of The Way Toys Work, The Way Kitchens Work, A Field Guide to Household Technology, and many other titles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Audiocassette Player 1

Bar Code Scanner 5

Bubble Gun 8

Camera (Digital) 12

Camera (Film) 17

CD-ROM 22

Clock 29

Computer Mouse (Mechanical) 32

Computer Mouse (Optical) 36

Drill (Electric) 39

DustBuster 44

DVD Player 49

Emergency Radio 56

Fan (Computer) 60

Fax 63

Ferrite Choke 70

Floppy Drive 73

Guitar (Electronic Toy) 76

Hair Dryer 81

Hard Drive 86

Headphones 91

Ink-Jet Printer 95

Joystick 102

Keyboard 107

Laptop 111

Laptop Screen 115

Laser Printer (LED Bar) 119

Laser Printer (Single Laser) 125

Metal Detector 132

Pencil Sharpener (Electric) 135

Phonograph 138

Piano Keyboard 143

Pointing Stick 147

Popcorn Popper 150

Radio-Controlled Car 154

Remote Control (Toy) 158

Sander 162

Scanner 166

Screwdriver (Electric) 171

Shredder 174

Super Soaker 178

Timer 181

Toothbrush (Electric) 185

Touchpad 188

Typewriter 192

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) 197

Videocassette Camera 201

Videocassette Recorder (VCR) 207

Video Game Light Gun 212

Web Cam 216

Wireless Router 219

Yoke 222

Zip Drive 226

Glossary and Index of Components 231

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