Unscrewed : salvage and reuse motors, gears, switches, and more from your old electronics / Ed Sobey.
"Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling old and broken electronics. Each of the more than 50 deconstruction projects includes a "treasures cache" of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions with photos on how to safely extract the working components. Projects include building a desk lamp from an old flatbed scanner, a barbeque supercharger from a Dustbuster impeller, and a robot from the gears, rollers, and stepper motor found in an ink-jet printer. Now, old VHS players and fax machines will find new life with these fun ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
"UNSCREWED is the perfect resource for anyone looking to salvage hidden treasures from old electronics and appliances. Author Ed Sobey, founder of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, will show how items found in an old flatbed scanner can be used to build a desk lamp; how a DustBuster impeller can be converted to quickly prep a charcoal grill; how the gears, rollers, and stepper motor found in an ink-jet printer can become a robot; and much more. Each of the 50+ deconstruction projects includes a "treasures cache" of the components to be found and step-by-step instructions, with photos, on how to safely extract the working components"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1569766045
- ISBN: 9781569766040
- Physical Description: xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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